Worst drought in 40 years has turned Bangkok tap water salty
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Some residents of Bangkok can literally taste the risk of a potentially damaging drought in Thailand. Tap water has turned saltier in parts of the city, a development blamed on the Chao Phraya river becoming too low to keep tidal seawater out. The saline intrusion is just one sign of dry conditions pointing to what the Thai Meteorological Department expects to be the worst drought in four decades.
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Worst drought in 40 years has turned Bangkok tap water salty. (2020, January 9). BusinessWorld, p. S2/5.
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