PrachinBuriDrought

16 MARCH 2016 - BAN SONG, PRACHIN BURI, THAILAND: A worker pushes bottles of water down the line at a water bottling plant in Ban Song. The plant has been open for 11 years and is reporting that demand has increased above normal this year because more people are buying bottled water because salt water has intruded into the local water supply. Some people are buying the bottled water to wash and bathe with because of the salt water intrusion. The drought in Thailand is worsening and has spread to 14 provinces in the agricultural heartland of Thailand. Communities along the Bang Pakong River, which flows into the Gulf of Siam, have been especially hard hit since salt water has intruded into domestic water supplies as far upstream as Prachin Buri, about 100 miles from the mouth of the river at the Gulf of Siam. Water is being trucked to hospitals in the area because they can't use the salty water. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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16 MARCH 2016 - BAN SONG, PRACHIN BURI, THAILAND: A worker pushes bottles of water down the line at a water bottling plant in Ban Song. The plant has been open for 11 years and is reporting that demand has increased above normal this year because more people are buying bottled water because salt water has intruded into the local water supply. Some people are buying the bottled water to wash and bathe with because of the salt water intrusion. The drought in Thailand is worsening and has spread to 14 provinces in the agricultural heartland of Thailand. Communities along the Bang Pakong River, which flows into the Gulf of Siam, have been especially hard hit since salt water has intruded into domestic water supplies as far upstream as Prachin Buri, about 100 miles from the mouth of the river at the Gulf of Siam. Water is being trucked to hospitals in the area because they can't use the salty water. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ