No one can dispute that water is our real need since we have realized
that human beings cannot survive without water.
So far, many communities have to rely on natural water resources.
Floodgates were constructed under the authority of the Royal
Irrigation Department after the government constructed Thon Buri-Pak
Tho road. The road separated the zones of fresh water and seawater
and also separated the zones of rice fields, snakeskin gourami (salid)
fish ponds, salt farms and shrimp farms. The balance of water flowing
in the natural water system was destroyed by the floodgates.