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ways – promoting awareness of water issues to schools, villages, etc., and in return
obtaining greater input from the community on major issues.
Water Quanty
Canal Maintenance Act, 1903
Water Hyacinth Eliminaon Act, 1913
Private Irrigaon Act, 1942
Royal Irrigaon Act, 1942
Dikes and Ditches Act, 1962
Minerals Act, 1967
Metropolitan Waterworks Authority Act,
1967
Electricity Generang Authority of
Thailand Act, 1968
Groundwater Act, 1977
Provincial Waterworks Authority Act,
1979
Waterworks Canal Maintenance Act,
1983
Civil and Commercial Code
Water Quality
Canal Maintenance Act, 1903
Water Hyacinth Eliminaon Act,
1913
Navigaon in Thai Waters Act,
1913
Royal Irrigaon Act, 1942
Fishery Act, 1947
Minerals Act, 1967
Revoluonary Council Announcement
No.286, 1972
Groundwater Act, 1977
Provincial Waterworks Authority
Act, 1979
Building Control Act, 1979
Factory Act, 1992
Public Health Act, 1992
City Cleanliness and Tidiness Act,
1992
The Enhancement and Conserva-
on of Naonal Environmental
Quality Act, 1992
Penal Code
Table 1: Classification
of Legislative Enactments
Relating to Water
in Thailand
Table 2: Agencies
Involved in Water
Resources Activities
Primary funcons Ministries Agencies Regulaons
Naonal plan Prime Minister’s Office NESDB
Hydropower development
and operaons
Irrigaon development
Agriculture development
and land use, and land
reform
Ministry of Energy (MOE)
Ministry of Agriculture
and Cooperaves
(MOAC)
EGAT, Department of Energy
Promoon
Royal Irrigaon Department
(RID), Department of Land Development
(DLD), Department
of Agriculture (DOA), Royal
Fisheries Department (RFD),
and Office of Land Reform
EGAT (B.E.2511)
Irrigaon Canals
(B.E.2483) and related
regulaons
Land Reform
(B.E.2517)
Fisheries
Fishery (B.E.2490)
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