Many of Bangkok’s klongs (canals) are foul and dirty. Some are filled with black oily water. Others are stagnant pools covered by smelly green scum and filled with garbage. Millions of liters of industrial waste is released into Thai waterways every year. By one estimate over 1.26 million tons of toxic waste is dumped into Thailand's waterways each year, most it untreated. A large number of arsenic-tainted water wells have been discovered in Thailand.
Hundreds of Karen villagers in Klity Lang, a village in northwest Thailand, have been sickened by drinking water contaminated with waste water discharged by lead mining company located in a Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary. The mine and the cleaning plant used to process ore were closed in 1998 but villagers are still affected. Environmental groups are trying to get money to pay compensation to victims of the pollution that has included children born mentally retarded, two girls born with abnormally large heads and no vaginas and people that died of kidney failure linked to lead poisoning.
In some coastal areas biodiversity and marine life numbers have been greatly diminished by overfishing and pollutants released from shrimp farms and in agricultural run off. Sewage released by hotels and developed tourism areas was a particular problem in Pattaya until it was fairly recently cleaned up. Problems posed by tourism to the marine environment include illegally harvesting seasheell,s dumping of rubbish into the sea ad anchoring tour boats on coral reefs. Discarded plastic bottles are a common sight on Thailand’s beaches. There is a lot of damage on coral reefs in Southeast Asia.
Greenpeace has issued a warning on the consumption of seafood from the Gulf of Thailand, saying rain water and sediment there contains high levels of seven “very toxic” chemicals. A study by the environmental group found that fish and seafood harvested 25 kilometers offshore south of Bangkok was “heavily contaminated with toxic chemicals released by industrial estates and factories.”
For a while there were worries about outbreaks of water-borne diseases in Pattaya as a result of large amounts of raw sewage dumped into the sea water but that problem was largely fixed with a $60 million clean water project and the fining of hotels and other businesses that dumped sewage.
See Shrimp Farming.
Many of Bangkok’s klongs (canals) are foul and dirty. Some are filled with black oily water. Others are stagnant pools covered by smelly green scum and filled with garbage. Millions of liters of industrial waste is released into Thai waterways every year. By one estimate over 1.26 million tons of toxic waste is dumped into Thailand's waterways each year, most it untreated. A large number of arsenic-tainted water wells have been discovered in Thailand.
Hundreds of Karen villagers in Klity Lang, a village in northwest Thailand, have been sickened by drinking water contaminated with waste water discharged by lead mining company located in a Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary. The mine and the cleaning plant used to process ore were closed in 1998 but villagers are still affected. Environmental groups are trying to get money to pay compensation to victims of the pollution that has included children born mentally retarded, two girls born with abnormally large heads and no vaginas and people that died of kidney failure linked to lead poisoning.
In some coastal areas biodiversity and marine life numbers have been greatly diminished by overfishing and pollutants released from shrimp farms and in agricultural run off. Sewage released by hotels and developed tourism areas was a particular problem in Pattaya until it was fairly recently cleaned up. Problems posed by tourism to the marine environment include illegally harvesting seasheell,s dumping of rubbish into the sea ad anchoring tour boats on coral reefs. Discarded plastic bottles are a common sight on Thailand’s beaches. There is a lot of damage on coral reefs in Southeast Asia.
Greenpeace has issued a warning on the consumption of seafood from the Gulf of Thailand, saying rain water and sediment there contains high levels of seven “very toxic” chemicals. A study by the environmental group found that fish and seafood harvested 25 kilometers offshore south of Bangkok was “heavily contaminated with toxic chemicals released by industrial estates and factories.”
For a while there were worries about outbreaks of water-borne diseases in Pattaya as a result of large amounts of raw sewage dumped into the sea water but that problem was largely fixed with a $60 million clean water project and the fining of hotels and other businesses that dumped sewage.
See Shrimp Farming.
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