CHON BURI: Koh Lan is suffering water shortages due to large numbers of visitors, now at about 10,000 per day.
Manoj Nongyai, deputy mayor of Pattaya City, said that with the end of the pandemic, visitors are returning to the resort island off Pattaya.
The island is supplied with about 300 cubic metres of treated water per day by Eastern Water Resources Development and Management Plc, but this is far from enough, he said.
Business operators on the island have had to buy treated water from private suppliers, who deliver it from the mainland at 70 to 150 baht per cubic metre.
As a short-term solution, Eastwater will be asked to increase the water supply to Koh Lan to 1,000 cubic metres per day.