Thailand: Super-canal could prevent floods
6 billion cubic meters of fill up and drain run-off on a rate of 6,000 cubic meters for each flash the equivalent of two and a partly Olympic-sized swimming pools a flash.Thai flooding impacting Burmese migrants Famed Thai temple location re-emerges Bangkoks bond refugeThis notion is much cheaper than digging a latest brook so a floodway, Thanawat alleged.He alleged the wished-for scheme would engage the construction of a kilometer-wide exclusion zone after that to the floodway to prevent properties from being rushed off your feet, and a raised highway on both boundary of the channel.The super-express floodway would in that case drain upstream run-off candidly into the sea.The university team is too looking next to other flood-prevention measures such in the same way as a better early-warning arrangement, improved hose resource management, a flood due, the handling of a flood-risk record on behalf of urban development and groundwater-use controls.at the moment, the government requirement bring to an end [trying to] solve flood problems with supporting methods, Thanawat told the Bangkok announce.