When drought takes place in Thailand or other countries in the region, he sends a special team to ease the problems. In the year 2000, when Thailand faced water shortages because of impacts from the El Ni?o phenomenon, His Majesty came up with an innovation for dealing with the situation and gave it to the royal rainmaking team to use as guidelines for solving the drought problem in the Chao Phraya basin and the lower North of Thailand. The innovation helped ease the water shortage problem to a great extent