bottom issue: corruption

I am not downplaying environmental issues and phenomena. But the current flooding situations were caused primarily by poor urban planning and improper waste diaposal.

Atleast the river in bangkok is still in pretty good condition wait until you guys see the river and canals in jakarta ( the color of the water is pitch black especially during dry season and is smell so bad )

There is an eerily similar documentary about the effect of sea level rise in Ho Chi Minh city. a) more frequent and more severe storms b) removal of the groundwater and land compression c) weight of the high rise buildings d) covering the open ground with concrete e) filling of the smaller drainage canals f) more intense river floods g) raising the roads which means that the locals have to raise their houses to avoid water runoff from the roads.

I live close to Suhwarnhabhumi airport and the last 5 years, the ground have been sinking 10cm already.

As a geologist, I can say there are several problems - one is ground subsidence due to a load and ground water usage. Another problem - transgressions and regressions - there is nothing can be done about that. It has to be clearly investigated and all hypothesis has to be checked. Based on this designs has to be made. I like Bangkok, a specially it’s historic centre, but something has to be done with urban planning. Traffic issues due to poor urban planning or absence of planning is an issue as well.

The amount of advertisements for every 1-3 minutes I'm watching the documentary is turning me off badly. CNA, please don't be greedy.

Thank you for sharing .

Bangkok is a marshland to begin with and worsened by heavy urban development and gentrification plus add the poor waste management, you get instant flooding after a heavy downpour. The khlongs of the Chao Phraya River is choking with waste thrown by careless residents along its banks.

That was some lazy translation works in some of the interviews. Keep trying your best.

Awesome series

While watching this series, I was actually thinking the same. We should put a public park or maybe a permaculture forest with a pond at the center of each cities, to be able to catch rain water and retain it to the soil so that rain water would be wash away to the rivers which will eventually end up in the sea. If there is no space in the city, then the government can buy the land and have the people in a housing project without the people paying anything. Much better if the housing is built within at the edge of the public park so they could appreciate their sacrificed lands.

Singapore is sinking rapidly with the influx of people yearly. Can we have an episode on this too?

It was a few years ago I read they were considering relocating the capital to Korat and leaving Krung Tep as a port city.

Great! Jakarta, Manila, Ho Chi Minh, Bangkok all sinking.

Bangkok is situated on the largest river in Thailand on the Delta at the oceanfront. They turned the delta tributaries into canals and then filled those canals io make roads. So now the water has nowhere to go except into the streets in monsoon season. Aleo the ocean is rising due to Global Warming. Originally it was empty land people knew not to build there and the capitol city was farther upstream but it was too tempting to build on the coastline and the city grew very large. ....

the king ordered govmt to not build on flood plain they did not listen bkk is built on swamp and its darn heavy hence keep building roads up

Improper civic planning with poor sewer water infrastructure makes Bangkok a city built on an open sewer, the smell of open sewer in the streets and canals is over powering at times but never leaves your senses. Been going to Thailand for 46 years and it only gets worst decade after decade, the Thais really don’t care about the cleanliness of their environment, very sad to see and unless they change their attitude disease will one day explode beyond their control.

In Holland we have the solution: floating houses!

If corruption stopped, Bangkok wont sink.

2:04 Bit of MSPaint Spray can tool is it lol Nice

"We will solve the problem through our know-how". Yes, sure. Good luck

People in Thailand have been talking for decades now, that too much of the forests were cut down. When a heavy rain happens, all that water flows to the Chao Praya drainage basin, putting huge swaths of land underwater. Fighting against deforestation, and perhaps reforestation, could help a lot to absorb water during the rainy season and to also slow down the drainage of water too into the rivers.

This is not rising sea levels. This is subsidence. Two very different things. Has nothing to do with climate or sea level. This is what happens when you pave over land and start pumping the ground water out from under it. South Florida has the same problem. So do a lot of places. You can't blame this on climate change.

Some part of Thailand,do not have water to use. Can it build something then can transform the water there.better then waiting for sinking...

Actually Thailand human power could be very to extreme strong because many farangs, foreigners from north european union, from Turkey, from USA , Canada want to become Thailand citizen and serve for the country to be the strongest. No foreigner want to become Laos or Myanmar or Cambodian citizen, but only to become Thailand citizen like me after visiting 4 times from 1997 to 2011 , total duration of 3 months. Bangkok has different and very attractive attire in the world with all year round hot and humid weather, rivers inside the city, fine foods options.

9:09 It's always groundwater, isn't it? 🌊

Jakarta, manila, bangkok, ho chi minh, singapore,, we are asean sinking capital together

Water at Ubolrattana Dam, Khon Kaen is poorly managed. We are having water restrictions as too much water was released, dam level now at about 6%. In relation to Bangkok, maybe would be wise to start relocating now but I’m sure the experts would be studying solutions, trouble is time goes quickly.

How about Singapore?

The biggest problem to Bangkok and other cities such as Jakarta , manila, is the countries economies have been pillaged by corrupt government officials for many decades, who were involved in decisions & poor town planning, very poor drainage all over the country , not to mention their peoples disregard in regards to trash and trashing their waterways, beaches and cities which intern has clogged their water ways and drainage pipes. They only have themselves to blame and not climate change.

Start charging for plastic bags and use reusable materials, put high tax on old cars, consume less energy. I lived in Bangkok, especially in April the heat is inhuman. 40 degrees Celcius is not pleasant

SG got to build up water defences fast "O

Sometime I think a city sink because of too much heavy buildings constructed. 🤔

let build a dam in Gulf of Thailand, at south of Pattaya and stretching to west side some 95 km, this will save more then just Bangkok.

Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok will be sinking (Expert say)

Willing or not our lives today is countable.

31:33 Salt water intrusion doesn't occur because of climate change. Salt water intrusion is caused by pumping ground water near the coast. You lower the ground water table, salt water intrudes. There is too much climate propaganda in this film.

Bad idea to store physical assets, e.g. gold and silver in low lying lands (any country).

This is a good news . Laos need open to the sea.

Btw too many cables here in Bangkok!! It's look so scary Ewwwww I'm so sick of this , I've been in BKK for 5 years But now I'm already moved to the countryside.

There is much rain in Asian countries, compare to other nations like Australia and Africa they have a drought which there is imbalance of water coming to different countries.

No Bangkok can do more manmade canal & lake for greenery purpose cause thailand got huge amounts of lands so for future development .

Im an eternal optomist. Im far more optomistic about climate change than the average person .

Still have 30 years coming. Before it happen. I think thai government =SHOULD = fixing. How to stop sinking. Everyone like Thailand. Hope can last long forever. Does it can pull up the water to use for other purposes. Wish Thailand grow well Thailand LOVER

No comments on global warming. But Bangkok's sinking issue is not related to global warming. It's a combination of many other things mentioned in this video. It seems that these CNA "documentaries" are pretty low quality misinformation with fear mongering mixed in, no matter the subject.

Fault in translation; Bang Kapi, not Bang Pa

Why Singapore's CNA reports Armageddon like scenario to all countries except Singapore? Are they insecure?

Foolishly I did not believe the flood affecting Bangkok could reach my home in Nonthaburi. When my ignorance was met by the total flooding of everything I had I was forced to leave. The repair damage, around $8,000 leaves me with the thought that the government with all the departments concerned about these issues are ignored by vested interests focused on construction of new mega apartment projects. As this documentary explains, the weight of these buildings on land that the clay soil is unable to sustain will be disastrous.

Who owns those great big concrete blocks around asian countries'?

I am not surprised if one day whole building will be vanished from the sight

Thai. has some BRAIN but, YES BIG GOVT/SINGAPORE & MALAYSIA SHOULD UNITE ON ALL THEIR SEA - RIVER ISSUES (MONSOON too!)

No I believe if the human congestion in Bangkok city is not removed in prone flooding area's then the people there will find themselves homeless. They should consider removing these people from prone flood area's and allow the land to return to its natural state. Maybe some sort of fish pond enterprise or some type of project that can utilize this flood land productively.

BKK will be gone finally. Many areas are already gone. It's is already below the sea levels .

Take it easy, we all just need money. All will be overcome with money and the government is not corrupt. With money, the city will not sink. What do you think is the difference between Bangkok, Manila and Jakarta with Singapore? Do you think that Singapore is not sinking with a very small area? In the coastal area? The answer is Singapore is not sinking because they are rich and developed countries, if they are developing countries it will definitely sink too. It is all because of the money and the behavior of the people and the government

It there any way use the sinking water change to drinking water. Or Thailand can have a machine can re-use the sinking water to normal drink water. Same as Singapore doing. Thai people it smarter I believe Thailand can make it to better country 🙏🙏🙏

Practically all major Asean cities are sinking

I'm in shock that even though cars and such help contribute to global warming that I see people just driving through the water further polluting the area.

Why is there closed captioning in English for presenters who are already speaking in English? It is an insult to them. I understand them clearly.

well this sucks for me because I live in Thailand and in 2 weeks I am going to go to Bangkok 💀💀💀

Its not question of if but the question of when. Major flood in Bangkok back in 2010 and people still ignoring the problem. Government officers too corrupted to do anything.

Really poor translation to make the situation sound worse that it was. The pregnant woman talking about the emergency services handing out aid was completely left out and translation changed for example. Images and videos not of Bangkok.

Can you do KL Next? I'm working in KL, staying in the suburb, but I'm not sure whether we are sinking too 😑

My favorite city. I've been there many many times. Over those many years I don't think I ever once saw a solar panel anywhere in the country. ???

Its no longer a problem when nature claims what hers.

just like jakarta

Sooner or later it had to happen. Unlimited growth was never possible. Quick profit and excessive birth rates fuel the fall of humanity. It must end tragically.

Let no one do harm to Bangkok As when people go there They feel blessed like a secret big And life becomes heaven when night

Well, if the city is sinking, why blame climate change?? Hysterical 😳

Take it easy, we all just need money. All will be overcome with money and the government is not corrupt. With money, the city will not sink. What do you think the difference between Bangkok, Manila and Jakarta with Singapore ? Do you think that Singapore is not sinking with a very small area? In the coastal area? The answer is Singapore is not sinking because they are rich and developed countries, if they are developing countries it will definitely sink too. It is all because of the money and the behavior of the people and the government. THINK ABOUT THAT !

And now they are moving to the Caribbean making big buildings😐

The main cause is the fault of the government, dictatorial military junta is the same as communist regime, a lot of incoming investment in Thailand has only enriched the members of military regime and their cronies. Meanwhile the people are left with their troubles. Investors should begin to learn and thinking from the military coup case in Myanmar. Investments will stop and possibly disappear because the Myanmar military junta can unilaterally cancel all business deals reached by the previous government. As a note, the junta military or communist government with a single power without any opposition can do anything including corruption on all fronts and the people can only see and accept what happens. very sad!

In 15 years BKK is finished.

Before BKK sinking sg already be Atlantis of asia

As sea levels keep rising there are a number of factors involved causing erasure of areas that stood above sea level...man made errors of building close to water edges is constantly being done, there is also the changes in the earth crust which is coming from lava flow under the seas which displace water it once flowed freely, that water has to go somewhere and to that fact it seeks the weakest spots around the world. low lying lands will always suffer as the increase in displacement is ever on going with the lava that is emitted from below the crust of the earth, when that becomes solid by cooling it is going to take up space that water occupied, simple application of Archimedes principle regarding water being displaced when an object of mass is created in a volume of water, Lava becomes solid mass under the sea taking up the space the water occupied, it is not just climate change as most see it, add to that melting ice caps as we know is water volume that increases sea levels. no easy answer as nature takes it`s course regardless to human efforts to hold back the tides or deal with the rains that systems can not cope with.

Is this real?

CNA is a Singaporean news government propaganda machine. The only way this small dot can compete with its neighbors is to put them down. Manila, Bangkok, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Saigon and even Seri Begawan and Dili, and all other SEAN cities will in the long run be better, more sustainable and a more pleasant place to live than Singapore. Unique among other mega cities, London, NY or even HongKong, Singapore has no "backyard" to sustain it. It's just a dot, not a dot in the middle of somewhere, just a DOT. It better be on the good side of its neighbors, rather than antagonizing them with fake, condescending and sometimes outrightly slanderous report just like this one.

Does Singapore envy Bangkok Progress? bangkok Become the number 1 tourist city in the world.

So singapore aint sinking?

Why not drill wells and bottle the water and send it to parts of the world that need water!

Why don't rich people group up to buy submarines for themselves and their familia so in the event of any natural disaster, they can escape to safety? The average people can board ships sent by humanitarian nations?

The authority has no fear about sinking of bangkok, they still build a few hundreds kilometres long of underground metro. Planting mangrovetrees and pressing surfacewater into deepground to stop sinking.

No worries Thailand do have a lot of Highland, Singapore none

Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok will be sinking except Singapore , so the solution is hiring Singaporean consultant and experts, with suitable fee... Hmmm Okay... they just need projects

You already featured sinking Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila. How about sinking Singapore?

Apparently that caused by sinking land not rising see. Stop false claim.

And also Thailand king are so play boy what kind of king is that right

Sea level is not rising. Lands all over the earth are on a rollercoaster ride. Some lands sink slightly and others rise...

Please Bangkok do not sink!

At least Thailand can move their capital inland. What's your plan Singapore? Move to Mars? 😁

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Money money money

they are only obsessed with the sinking city and the bad view of the neighboring city

สวัสดีครับ some pictures in this video didn't related to the headline, they seemed to come from a big flood in 2011. Please watching it carefully.

No worries mates, human civilization will only exist for another 60 plus years and the end of the world will come, according to some prophecy. So, enjoy life while it last or prepare for life beyond earth. We are all in transit here on earth as a alien species, time will come for us to go. Sayonara!

Aren't we all sinking?

That's false news

Sad.

Water in Thailamd is Wa-er. Try it, speaking a sentence regarding water and you'll automatically Thai-ed it.

The planet is ever changing and man must move away from the water! And yes it’s that simple!