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    Famed ecologist hails Pattayas recovery after break from tourism

    Pattaya beach is cleaner than it has been for the past two decades after recovering from the heavy impacts of tourism, said prominent marine scientist Thon Thamrongnawasawat.

    The water is clear and pristine while trash has almost completely disappeared from the sand, said Asst Prof Thon, who has over 100 books and several marine conservation projects to his name. Pattaya beach was now as beautiful as he remembered it 15 to 20 years ago before the latest boom in tourism, he added.

    With local hotels offering big discounts on accommodation, Thon recommended that people grab the chance to visit the seaside city while it was at its prettiest.Along with the beaches, the city’s markets are also free of crowds and more organised, he said, adding that visitors could help local businesses recover from the impacts of Covid-19.

    Speaking as a former adviser to Pattaya authorities, he said the return of tourism should be carefully controlled so that the city and its marine environment remained clean and beautiful.

    Famed ecologist hails Pattaya’s recovery after break from tourism

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    Pattaya beach was now as beautiful as he remembered it 15 to 20 years ago
    Jeezuz...that bar is set low.

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    The water is clear and pristine
    well of course it is. the sewers that drain into it have been starved for the past 3 months of the untreated piss and shit expelled from the bodies of the hundreds of thousands of tourists that flock to the place.

    however, worry not, because the sulphurous stench that blows out of the cities open drains and the thousands of steaming brown floaters that frolic merrily in the frothy surf should be returning very shortly though.

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    I give till the end of year to bring the beaches back to 'normal'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    who has over 100 books
    Any of them been in print?

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    well of course it is. the sewers that drain into it have been starved for the past 3 months of the untreated piss and shit expelled from the bodies of the hundreds of thousands of tourists that flock to the place.

    however, worry not, because the sulphurous stench that blows out of the cities open drains and the thousands of steaming brown floaters that frolic merrily in the frothy surf should be returning very shortly though.
    As if those imagined pellucid waters embracing the silvered, paradisal strands of Hua Hin were any fucking different......

    But actually you are wrong, somewhat surprisingly for you Tax given your association with the subject, on the turd front. Pattaya does have a sewage treatment plant and for the past decade or so all condo developments have had to incorporate cesspit sewage disposal units into their construction with the 'blackwater' produced thereby being drained into the municipal sewage system. The problem arises when these flows are inundated with rain runoff and the inevitable happens, in coastal areas, when the floods are drained into the sea, or in urban areas into local rivers. This is of course a Thai-wide phenomenon because the country has not rated the separation of sewage from storm drainage as a priority in the urban environment.

    Just thought I should introduce a little knowledge into the ordure of your pontifications, Tax. Hope you don't mind.

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    This prominent marine scientist is only stating the obvious. Take any beach anywhere in the world and remove all people from it, clean it thoroughly, then keep people off it and no boats moving in the surrounding waters for a few months and of course it's going to start to recover. He's wrong about it being "as beautuful" as it was 15 or 20 years ago though, it was anything but "beautiful" back then too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Headworx View Post
    He's wrong about it being "as beautuful" as it was 15 or 20 years ago though, it was anything but "beautiful" back then too.
    Umm..so he's not wrong then, is he.

    Or lying, as such.

    Just bullshitting and obfuscating.

    Thailand's media is replete with it...they seem to get off on it.

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    All this veiled criticism is not helping SAs latest Chinese buyer to commit to buying that second hand condo.
    Chinks are pretty despicable characters at the best of times. A Chink with money, pretending to buy a condo, should carry a public health warning.

    Good luck with the sale genticles, your transfer to Ecuador is in the balance. I’m sure South America will welcome the likes of you, now all the ex nazis have died.

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    But actually you are wrong,
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    The problem arises when these flows are inundated with rain runoff and the inevitable happens, in coastal areas, when the floods are drained into the sea, or in urban areas into local rivers.
    The problem arises when these flows are inundated with rain runoff and the inevitable happens, in coastal areas, when the floods are drained into the sea, or in urban areas into local rivers. This is of course a Thai-wide phenomenon because the country has not rated the separation of sewage from storm drainage as a priority in the urban environment.
    so actually i was correct in stating that the sea regularly becomes polluted with raw sewage.

    hua hin is probably no better, although i have never seen raw sewage in the sea in front of our condo. flotsam and jetsam from fishing boats, including the huge factory boats that incessantly roam the gulf these day seem to be the source of the main pollutants that wash up on our beach and consists of plastics, ropes, bits of netting and broken bottles.

    i havent been in the sea for years, and have no desire to do so.


    Just thought I should introduce a little knowledge into the ordure of your pontifications, Tax. Hope you don't mind
    not at all, the comic relief offered by yet another expat who has left it too late to leave the sinking ship but still desperately fights his corner is always welcome. here's hoping your hong kong buyers manage to seal the deal before beijing imposes any more restrictions on them.

    greetings from north yorkshire, btw, pristine as ever, and with a most pleasant 28C and a refreshing light breeze from the west.

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