A woman holds the hand of a boy as they wade through floodwater at their house alongside the Tha Chin River in Wat Sing district of Chai Nat. Their community was flooded after water behind the Chao Phraya Dam was diverted to alleviate the hardship of flood-hit people living downstream and upstream from the dam. (Photo by Chudate Seehawong)CHAI NAT: The Royal Irrigation Department on Monday began redirecting water from the rising Chao Phraya Dam reservoir into the Tha Chin River to ease the hardship of people living in downstream areas that are already flooded. However, this caused the Tha Chin River to overflow, inundating at least 50 houses along the river in Wat Sing district of this Central Plain province. The Chao Phraya Dam continued to discharge water at 2,598 cubic metres of water per second on Monday, for the ninth consecutive day.

Source: Bangkok Post October 23, 2017 05:26 UTC