Underground Water Bank : The Water Management Innovations

Abstract

Water is considered a natural resource that is important to human life and also promoting economic development. The natural water that humans can use, such as atmospheric water (rain), surface water and ground water. Thailand still faces water management problems such as summer water shortages, drought, prolonged rainfalls, floods in the rainy season etc. The Department of Local Administration has implemented the policy by promoting local administrative organizations to manage water in accordance with the sufficiency economy philosophy, especially the concept of groundwater bank to provide a water management model. How the management of the groundwater bank proceeded. What are the benefits of groundwater bank management, what problems and obstacles are there, and how can groundwater bank management ideas solve drought and flooding problems. This is to suggest water management system development and groundwater bank management for sustainability continually.