Abstract
Problem statement: An integrated water resource management is accepted technique to solve the water resource problems both water shortage and flood plane in order to improve human life. The combination between local wisdom and modern technology by farmer participation is a main part of integrated management. The mentioned techniques had been being applied for human life in the northeast region of Thailand. Approach: This study investigated the local wisdom of water resource management and an application of the local wisdom to manage water resource for developing the economic, society and culture of Lam Ta Kong’s community, Nakhorn Ratchasima province, Thailand. Information was investigated from relevant document and field survey including questionnaire and interview. Results: The result founded that there were two types of the local wisdoms including an original local wisdom on water management and a combination of original and modern science local wisdom to manage available water. For original wisdom, there were earth dam, rock dam, rocks dyke, wooden weir, waterwheel and shallow well that were found in source and midst of the river basin. They constructed the dams and weirs barrier flow river along the Lam Ta Kong River in order to storage water for using purposes in dry season and to mitigate flood plane during rainy season as an early age of the local wisdom. The waterwheel was used to bail water from river to their community. For the combination of original and modern science, there were concrete dam, Watergate, irrigating tube, irrigation channel, water pump, water pump dynamo and underground water drilling that were found at the source, midst and tide tail of the river basin. These combined local wisdoms are considered as a current apparatus in water resource management of the area. The stored water was managed with annual rainfall for cultivation, industrial, family activity and residences for the necessaries of life. Conclusion/recommendations: The original local wisdom had the most important role to develop the Lam Ta Kong’s community and farmer life from past to present that is disappearing. In the present, the community and farmers still have been being used the combined local wisdom to manage water for developing the economic, society and culture of Lam Ta Kong’s Community.
Highlights
Nowadays integrated water resource management is an effective solution to solve the water resource problems and to manage available water in order to improve human life
The first type was the original local wisdom including earth dam, rock dam, rocks dyke, wooden weir (Fig. 2), Waterwheel and shallow well that were found in source and midst of the river basin area
The second type was the original local wisdom combined with a modern technology including concrete dam, Watergate, irrigating tube, irrigation canal, water pump, water pump dynamo and underground water drilling that were found at the source, midst and tide tail of the river basin
Summary
Nowadays integrated water resource management is an effective solution to solve the water resource problems and to manage available water in order to improve human life. The mentioned techniques have been being applied for human life in the northeast region of Thailand. Water resource management is a basically factor of human living since the past to present. It is an important fundamental that is producing the riches on natural resources to the living things in the world. The water resource management is a resource of difficult for finding inside of demand and more requirements. The water management is the most important matter in many countries and paid more attention to the water resource management which were differed such as the watering management of USA is under the central
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