ROYAL RAIN
In 1955, while flying to visit villagers in the Phuphan Mountains in northeastern Thailand, His Majesty noticed that although there were plenty of heavy clouds along his flight path, they failed to bring rainfall to the parched lands below.
Water scarcity brings extreme hardship to farmers. Population increases and industrial expansion also place great strain on existing water resources.
Analysing the information and scientific data available, His Majesty made it known to one of his close aides, M.R. Debriddhi Devakul, of his firm intention to search for a way to bring down �more rain than that given by nature.�
The Royal Rain, or artificial rain, project was thus born. Soon afterwards, an official agency, the Royal Rain Operations Office, was established to assume responsibility for cloud seeding operations.