While still in hospital, His Majesty held meetings would he with the prime minister and members of the Strategic ease floo Formulation Committee for Water Resource Management(SCWRM) who reported to His Majesty on the progress by river of flood control measures, while His Majesty would offer his suggestions, as he has always done. Deforestation and in Sam broadc greed was partly to blame for the great floods, cautioned His Majesty. He encouraged the planting of mixed forests project Nakho which would provide lumber edible produce as well as phitsa water absorption from the deep roots. Thora The committee also proposed flood mitigation Uthok projects based on His Majesty's concepts given during the previous floods of 1995 when he indicated that excess floodwater should be diverted to natural floodways in the supe eastern and western parts of Bangkok and quickly d Sirir out into the sea. whic with His Majesty to show the way, the government soon implemented the Monkey Cheek concept in the Thung Makham Yong project in Ayutthaya province. The Thai public were more than overjoyed when His Majesty the King, accompanied by Her Majesty the Queen and HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, made a trip to Ayutthaya in May 2012, His Majesty's first trip upcountry inthree years to the would help to store water for project w use in the dry season and ngs ease A problems in the rainy season. by few months later, luly, group t the Royal in samsen Department ffer in district, on head office broadcast to officially via remote live five projects, namely the Khun Dan water catchment phitsanulok, Khwae Noi Prakan Chon Dam in Payang Bam Dam in Thoranit Narumitr Bhumipat water tunnel in Kalasin. Uthokvibhajaprasid Water Gate in Nakhon Phanom and Finally, after Water Gate in Nakhon Si Thammarat. supervision of four years under the close Siriraj physicians, His Majesty the King left which Hospital for Klai Kangwon Palace in Hua Hin, during had become like a second home to His Majesty the later part of his life. and ned ests as ess the med And it was here, for the first time during the long reign, that His Majesty's birthday ceremonies-from the Grand Audience to the Trooping of the Colours were held in December 2013 instead of the Grand Palace or Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall in Bangkok that had in always been the tradition