“This year very much water”, government spoke man always said when make a statement. The major flooding season in Thailand, most severely in the Chao Phraya but also in the Mekong River basin. Beginning in late July and continuing for over two months, as of 18 October there have been 307 reported deaths, over 2.3 million people affected, with estimated damages of up to 156.7 billion baht.It is the biggest flooding in Thailand as well.

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The flooding has inundated about six million hectares of land, of which over 300,000 hectares is farmland, in fifty-eight provinces, from Chiang Mai in the North to parts of the capital city of Bangkok. The floods often begin in the North and spread down the Chao Phraya River through the central plains, in the Northeast along the Chi and Mun Rivers flowing into the Mekong, or in the coastal hillsides of the East and South. Read more »