Water worries
Students get sick at school
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration plans to stop using underground water tanks at city schools. The step was announced after a meeting of the BMA’s public health committee on September 25.
Deputy Bangkok governor Pusadee Tamthai said random tests of drinking water collected from BMA-run schools suggested some students had suffered diarrhoea after drinking school water. The investigation found that BMA schools store water in underground tanks.
“The tanks could have ruptured, and the water would become contaminated,” Pusadee said.