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cheapcharlie
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I cannot find anything on this subject so I started a thread as it is of interest for all of us travelling to or living in LOS.
Whether true or not, whatever they are doing or not we have all seen first hand the floods in bkk from a bit of rain.
According to this article in 20 or 30 yrs BKK will be fllooded and
by the end of the century completely under water blub blub.
I really have no idea what if anything the authorities do against rising water in bkk and with all the corruption
would the cash go to the right places.Also it says their is no alternative as a capital, anyone any ideas of an alternative capital for Thailand ? Remember Pattaya is loosing its beaches too so it cant count.
I live in Amsterdam myself which is under water but the dykes are well made and the hookers and dry inside. The ball and chain wants to return to LOS BKK in a few yrs im wondering if I should buy a boat instead of a house.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/22/thailand.water.rising.ap/index.html
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Posted on: 3:20 am on Oct. 23, 2007
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james bond
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Does this mean water sports in Bangkok around 20-30 years time be half price.
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Posted on: 2:08 pm on Oct. 23, 2007
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LastSurvivor
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All that will change is instead of all the taxis on Sukhumvit you'll just have to take a long tail boat. Not so bad really.
LS
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Posted on: 2:48 pm on Oct. 23, 2007
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thailife
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actuall yold news.... if you look around bkk you will see where the footings on older buildings have been sinking.... typical thai...... do worry about it, make money now......
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Posted on: 2:57 pm on Oct. 23, 2007
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Mr Alan
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As the article says, the big problem is sinking ground, not rising waters. This is caused by pumping of water from underground acqufiers:
"The gulf's waters have been rising by about a tenth of an inch a year, about the same as the world average, says Anond Snidvongs, a leading scientist in the field."
"But the city, built on clay rather than bedrock, has also been sinking at a far faster pace of up to 4 inches annually as its teeming population and factories pump some 2.5 million cubic tons of cheaply priced water, legally and illegally, out of its aquifers. This compacts the layers of clay and causes the land to sink."
Same thing happened in Houston Texas years ago until they stopped pumping water from under-ground acauifers.
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Posted on: 7:43 pm on Oct. 23, 2007
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China Sailor
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Hell with it y'all, take Noah's route:
Build an ark, put two BGs from evey venue on it, and let the freakin city sink.
Instructions on building an Ark can be found in Genesis 6:14-16...
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Posted on: 1:29 am on Oct. 24, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Monday 26 November 2007 :-
Wall around Bangkok
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Alarmed by the prospect of global warming triggering a rise in sea levels, disaster prevention experts and a local political group called for the construction of a 100-billion-baht flood prevention wall to save the capital from being inundated.
The call was made at a seminar on climate change and its impact on Bangkok held yesterday by the Bangkok 50 group, a political clan run by members of the now-defunct Thai Rak Thai party (TRT).
Chalitrat Chandrubeksa, the group's acting leader, said it would launch a signature campaign to get 50,000 names to push for the project. It would also try to convince the next government to give the go-ahead to the project.
Mr Chalitrat, a former TRT member, said the next government should not delay the decision as it would take up to eight years to build the city flood wall.
The proposed wall, he said, would cost about 100 billion baht, but it would be worth it to save the city.
He cited climate change experts' forecasts that the sea level will rise from 1.5 metres to two metres in the next decade, which would pose a serious threat to the city.
Smith Dharmasaroja, chairman of the National Disaster Warning Centre, supported the idea.
He said Bangkok was at risk of being submerged by sea water because of rising sea levels and the problem of land subsidence.
Mr Smith cited a study by the Military Mapping Office which found the city's land subsides about 5-8 centimetres every year.
The land subsidence situation was getting worse, he said, adding that in one area the land had subsided almost one metre.
He urged the next government to find proper measures to save the city from inundation, including the flood wall project.
Seree Supratid, the director of Rangsit University's natural disaster research centre, said the proposed flood prevention wall should stand at three metres higher than the moderate sea level. According to an initial design, the structure will be 80 kilometres long, starting from the mouth of the Ta Chin river to the Bang Pakong river.
It will cover three provinces - Samut Sakhon, Chachoengsao and Bangkok - he said.
The wall should be erected 300 metres offshore so there will be space for mangrove forest, which is a powerful natural barrier to prevent soil erosion.
The academic noted that similar flood walls had already been built in flood-prone Netherlands and Singapore.
The project could not only save the city from rising sea levels, but also slow down coastal erosion, said Mr Seree.
Bangkok slowly sinking has become a major concern for city residents after various forecasts by international academics and climate change experts about rising sea levels associated with climate change and the growing threat of global warming.
Some reports say Bangkok will be permanently and completely under water, while others argue that the situation will not be as bad, although the city's floods will be longer and cover larger areas than before.
However, according to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, cities located along the Chao Phraya river including Bangkok will be ''slightly damaged'' from rising sea levels.
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