Thai industrial sector warned of threats from floods and drought
The Thai industrial sector would be at risk of flood and drought triggered by global warming, and those disasters were likely to become more severe in the future, the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) warned on Wednesday.
During the annual public conference at Samyan Mitrtown shopping mall in Bangkok, the institute’s research fellow, Nopparuj Chindasombatcharoen, predicted industrial estates in Ayutthaya and Pathum Thani provinces to be at risk of inundation.
To cope with flooding, he advised diversifying risks by avoiding setting up factories in flood-prone areas and promoting investment in other industrial estates rather than those in the central region and the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).
Nopparuj also noted that EEC would be at risk of drought, which could result in water shortage for production.
“Hence, the EEC should increase consumption of recycled water and gradually increase the price of untreated water to encourage water conservation,” he said.
