Clean flood water by micro-ball in Thailand

Thai people make microbial balls from soil and rice bran to clean flood water in flooded areas.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra showed the people
Microbiology balls during the inspection in Bangkok on November 3. (Photo: AFP)

On November 3, hundreds of Bangkok's Thai residents gather at the Amarin Plaza shopping center in the city center and make micro-balls to clean up contaminated water in flooded areas. This is an activity organized by a local volunteer group. The event attracted many volunteers, including office workers, local students and even foreign tourists, Xinhua reported.

The main ingredients are soil, rice bran and bacteria, micro-balls - the size equivalent to tennis balls - capable of cleaning 10 liters each time. One can use each fruit for about a month.

Danal Chanchaochai, a member of the event organizing team, said that because the bacteria spread in the water, the health of people in flooded areas could be threatened. The volunteer group organized the event to guide people on simple steps to make micro-balls when the city flooded. They called on people to help them promote the way of shadowing on the media, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Microbiological balls are made from soil and rice bran. (Photo: The Nation)

Volunteers and people have created about 130,000 micro balls in the past few days. They distributed the shadow to the victims of flood areas in Bangkok and some other areas.

Thai officials say they will bring billions of micro balls to flooded provinces to treat dirty water.

Floods over the past three months in Thailand have killed at least 442 people. Economic losses are estimated at about $ 4.9 billion, equivalent to about 1.3 to 1.5% of the annual gross domestic product. Many districts of Bangkok are deeply submerged in the "deluge" and the number of residential areas is increasingly evacuated. Currently one fifth of the city has been flooded. Bus routes had to stop operating in many areas of the Thai capital, and only military trucks could access flooded places.