Twenty Greenpeace activists today unfurled a banner saying “Information Disclosure: Pollution is not a secret” at the Department of Industrial Works (DIW) building in Central Bangkok to urge the DIW to proactively tackle chemical contamination of Thailand’s water resources, beginning with the Chao Phraya River. The activists also delivered two two-liter bottles of potentially toxic water samples taken from Somrong and Bangnakreng canals of Chao Phraya, site of hundreds of dirty and polluting factories, to the office of DIW.
Greenpeace is calling on the Thai government to initiate a legislation that makes it mandatory for industries to disclose all information on usage, release and transfer of hazardous chemicals as a first step to the eventual elimination of toxic chemicals from all industrial production.