Chao Phraya River Basin (CPRB)

Management
What’s already happening?

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I. Characteristics
A. Physical
1. 160,000 km2
2. 30% of Thailand
3. 40 million people (10+
million in Bangkok)
4. Starts in mountainous
north
5. Ends in flood plains of
central Thailand
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I. Characteristics
B. Economic - 3 zones
1. North - average
economic growth
2. Middle - below average
3. Bangkok - above average

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II. Water Management
A. Irrigation
- Muang Fai (Ping River)
irrigation customs for
over 200 years
B. Dams
1. Since 1950 over 3000 dams
have been built
a. Bhumiphol (Ping)
b. Sirikit (Nan)
2. Reasons
a. electricity
b. dry season storage
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II. Water Management
C. Who’s in charge?
30 departments!
National Water Resource Committee
Office of National Water Resource Committee
Ministries
Department of Energy & Energy Promotion (pumped irrigation)
Agriculture
Metropolitan Water Worksand Cooperatives
Big Policy Development Board
Authority (portable water)
Provincial Waterworks Authority
Science, Technology, & the Environment
National Economic and Social
Industry
Development Board

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III. 1997 Constitution
A. Greater citizen
participation
B. Greater decentralization
C. Greater participation of
the people in creating laws
and policies
D. Greater access to
information
E. Unsure of impact of new
2007 Constitution
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IV. Draft Water Bill

A. Equitability
B. Sustainability
C. Efficiency
D. Still lacking a single
department to oversee all the
issues

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