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Aswin pledges an end to city floods

Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang shows off his basketball skills in the sports field near Rachvipa Interchange on Monday. The governor told the media that the city’s chronic flood problems will be over with more underground water banks, like the one under the sports field, set to be completed in two years. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul)

The Bangkok governor on Monday boasted that an end is in sight to the capital’s chronic annual flood problems with the construction of a second pair of underground water banks set to be completed within the next two years.

Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) chief Aswin Kwanmuang said the project was initiated in 2018 when construction of the first two of the four underground retention tanks began, with the aim of building four in total with the capacity to contain the…

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