Phuket’s vice governor introduced yesterday in a meeting that despite the very fact that the island’s rainfall was below average in 2021, there was nonetheless a lot of water from the three main reservoirs, and water scarcity is “not a concern.” He stated plans nonetheless have to be made to stop water shortages in Phuket, although. ผลไม้ had extreme water shortages in 2019 and 2020.
Deputy PM Prawit travelled to Phuket in 2020, and ordered the Office of National Water Resources (ONWR) to work on fixing the shortage. This included working on a pipeline from Phang Nga. That yr, communities relied on water tanks put in of their road areas, and had to gather water from buckets to hold again to their homes. Prawit said poor residents in one soi had no faucet water for months.
In 2019, the president of the Southern Thai Hotels Association said motels had been hit onerous by the shortage, and many had to resort to independent water suppliers. He known as on the state to help in order that Phuket could have sustainable tourism. The city mayor said the federal government had been offering free water to 18,000 households a day. 70% of the water was produced regionally, and the rest was from local suppliers, she stated..