Agence France Presse

Cha-am, March 13:

Thailand may approach its neighbours about diverting water from the Mekong river to ease a drought that has crippled the kingdom, a minister said today. The plan was tabled as a long-term solution to Thailand’s dro-ughts, as current emergency cloud-seeding measures could fall short due to lack of planes, new agriculture minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said. “The long-term measures include drafting a national plan to divert water from the Mekong river,” she told reporters in this seaside resort a day before PM Thaksin Shinawatra’s new cabinet is sworn in.