A series of urgent measures to cope with next year’s floods will be implemented in Thailand within the next five months, according to a key member of the strategic committee for water resource management.

The long-term measures will be executed in the next one to three years.

These measures include construction of more permanent “monkey cheeks”, floodways, watergates and dams to balance the water-resource management of the Ping, Wang, Yom and Nan rivers, which come together to form the Chao Phraya.

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