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.
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