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Flood Report

The document discusses Thailand's 2011 flood situation. Heavy rains caused dams like Bhumibol Dam to exceed capacity, forcing the release of large amounts of water that flooded central provinces outside Bangkok. The government initially blocked floodwaters from reaching Bangkok, causing water levels to rise in surrounding provinces. They eventually had to release water into Bangkok as well, raising water levels and dirtying the water supply in certain areas. Many people were evacuated to other provinces, overcrowding them and creating issues with lack of food and water.

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Flood Report

The document discusses Thailand's 2011 flood situation. Heavy rains caused dams like Bhumibol Dam to exceed capacity, forcing the release of large amounts of water that flooded central provinces outside Bangkok. The government initially blocked floodwaters from reaching Bangkok, causing water levels to rise in surrounding provinces. They eventually had to release water into Bangkok as well, raising water levels and dirtying the water supply in certain areas. Many people were evacuated to other provinces, overcrowding them and creating issues with lack of food and water.

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Flood report

Now Thailand has a very big problem and that is flood. The flood situation starts from the Lower north of Thailand and down to central region. The cause of the flood is that the amount of the rain this year is much more than last year. After that many dams in Thailand such as Bhumibol dam have the water over the limit of reservation so they release a large amount of water out that why many provinces in central region was covered by water. In central region, the water starts covering the provinces from the urban outside Bangkok such as Ayutthaya, Nonthaburi, Pathumthani, and Nakornpathom. Those provinces was covered by water for many weeks because the government was block the water from coming to Bangkok so that why the water was higher and higher in the provinces near Bangkok. At last they gradually release the water to Bangkok and the provinces beside. That causes the water in Chao Phraya River to rise up to 2.53 m. and the zone near it such as Bang Plad and Taling Chan was affected and the water supply became dirty. Right now the government announced that the people in many zone must evacuate to nearby provinces that why the provinces such as Chonburi and Nakornratchasima was full of people and the subsequence problem was the lack of food and water.

level of water in Bhimibol Dam before and after

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