The Department of Pollution Control (PCD) has warned people not to use water from 18 sources during the Songkran holidays because of unsafe bacterial contamination. The unsafe water sources include river sections that pass through Bangkok and Nonthaburi's Bang Kruai district.
By Nicha Wachpanich/Third PolePhotos by Luke Duggleby In June 2022, Chantra Chanthathong traveled from his home in northeast Thailand to the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives in Bangkok. Along with around 100 fellow villagers, he was part of a group demanding compensation for thousands of people who say they have…
CHIANG KHAN, Thailand In the rustic old town of Chiang Khan on the Mekong River, a tourist haven in northeastern Thailand’s Isaan region, local fishing communities now live in fear of a proposed dam that threatens to devastate their livelihoods. The $2 billion, 684-megawatt dam would sit just 2 kilometers (1.25 miles) upstream of […]
Development projects and agrochemicals are threatening the ecology of the Songkhram River the last free-flowing river in the Northeast and one of the country's few remaining freshwater biodiversity hotspots, although some species are already nothing but a memory.