"The people who live along Chao Phraya River have been living with the water for very long time. "We have agreements with the local farmers to let them harvest their crops first before we can let the water flood their farms. "If we stored the water in these retention basins right now, there would be no space to keep the floodwater next month and there would be large-scale floods. He said that although there would be more storms, these were not of serious concern although they would affect the monsoon trough over Thailand. "Right now, the monsoon trough is over Central Region and it will keep travelling south during the next months.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 26, 2016 17:15 UTC