“The King’s projects used a combination of flood prevention methods and applied the strength of each to maximise the overall efficiency of the projects. This is because he had an excellent knowledge of irrigation work, kept himself updated on the current situation and understood both the area and the environment well,” Sucharit says.
Chalit also praises HM the King’s work on flood prevention, pointing that that the Monarch did not only address the problem locally but looked at the whole picture and tackled the problem at its roots.
“Bangkok was flooded because the water flowing down from the North was exacerbated by rain. He first built the Pasak Jolasid Dam in Lop Buri to control the water flow of the Pasak River, which is main tributary of Chao Phraya River and feeds very large amounts of water into Chao Phraya River Basin,” he explains.