BANGKOK: There is no risk to public health from consuming water whose salinity levels have shot up because of intrusion of saltwater in the city's supplies, the health authority said. The Department of Health, however, advised caution for people in the high-risk group.
Concerned government agencies had earlier forecast below-average rains in Thailand during January to May.
The department’s director-general, Dr Panpimol Wipulakorn, said that the source of the water’s salinity is sodium chloride, which is commonly known as salt. “Currently, the a litte tap water includes around 100 to 150 milligrams of sodium,” the director-general said.
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