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Namning: I'm just waiting for your x-ray

Muang: But I've never dated anyone named ray

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Klong Bang Phra Luang receives water from the Yom River, but the canal has been dry since November last year. The river does not have enough water to feed its tributaries. Tambon Bang Phra Luang in Muang district, about 25 kilometres north of the Nakhon Sawan municipality, has 723 households, 30 of them normally floating in the canal. These raft people use the canal water for bathing, while tap water is provided by the Bang Phra Luang tambon administration organisation.

"About half of the 30 floating houses are totally affected by the drought," TAO chief Thepporn Ratchakit said. The others have water from time to time, as the rafts are moored in a deeper part of the canal, he added.

The drought this year was the worst he had experienced since 1994, and things were likely to get worse  with the peak of the hot, summer season in April.

"We will help them as best we can, they will at least have tap water," Mr Thepporn said.

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