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Thai Waterworks Museum
Museum located at the Samsen
Water Treatment Plant in Bangkok's Phaya Thai District and housed in
the former and first water treatment plant of the country. It is
divided into three parts, i.e. a pure water storing area, a pumping
section and a filtering plant. The museum (fig.)
explains the evolution of Thailand’s waterworks system, which was
initiated under the auspices of King
Rama V,
in order to give his subjects access to clean water. He set up a
government unit led by
Chao Phraya
Yommaraat
(fig.),
the then Minister of Public Works, in order to set up and manage the
system, whilst also providing personal resources as a starting fund
for its establishment. Hence, construction of the first water
treatment plant was started in 1909, in the reign of King Rama V,
but was completed only in the reign of King
Rama VI,
who declared it open in November 1914 under the name Bangkok
Waterworks Authority, with headquarters at Maen Sri Intersection (แยกแม้นศรี
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map
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fig.). In
1967, the unit became a state enterprise and has since then been
renamed the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority of Thailand. Today,
there are several water treatment plants across the capital (map
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fig.), administered by the
Metropolitan Waterworks Authority
(map
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fig.). On 17 July 2013, Princess
Maha
Chakri
Sirindhorn
presided over the
opening ceremony of the Thai Waterworks Museum, well ahead for the
celebrations of the 100th Anniversary of Thailand's first water
treatment plant in November 2014.
See also POSTAGE STAMP
and
MAP.
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