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Introduction They're about to raise this road again. People raised up their homes once, twice—you see, houses end up way up in the sky! Interview case 19, Mother Goddess Area (26 October 2024) When rain falls, or tides are high, especially during the Mekong's annual monsoonal flood pulse (May to November), water fills the streets and flows into low-lying buildings. If the floodwaters rise high enough—above the level of the intake on a motorbike's engine—the city comes to a standstill.
“God made the world, but the Dutch made the Netherlands.” So the saying goes, in this swampy delta where the Rhine and Meuse rivers meet tidal flows of the North Sea. Dismissed in ancient times as “a pitiful land flooded twice a day,” the delta was transformed in the past millennium by thousands of “polders,” or low zones encircled by dikes and drained by pumps, which enabled farmers to reclaim land where there had been peat bogs, lakes, and sea.
Flood victims confront authorities on the outskirts of Bangkok, demanding that a gate be opened to release floodwaters, in October 2011. [AP Photo/Altaf Qadri] In 2011, a catastrophic flood washed through greater Bangkok. Hydrologically, this was not so unusual; Bangkok occupies the Chao Phraya River Delta, and although the rainfall that year was higher than normal, the waters didn’t reach the hundred-year flood level. But the landscape was more vulnerable than in past cycles.
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