Photos: Thailand's ordeal by water

Bangkok, one of the favourite tourist destinations of the East, is also a city that climatologists have warned for years to be sinking. Two spells of flooding this year -- including one in March, supposedly the country's dry season -- have claimed hundreds of lives and destroyed livelihoods. The death toll in this year's post-monsoon flooding, which began in late July, has exceeded 500. An area the size of Kuwait has been underwater. Food, clean water and medication are the needs of the hour, but relief workers are struggling to reach supplies to far-flung villages where disease and electrocution threaten survivors. Rising floodwaters have shut down industrial estates, threatening to hit the carmaking industry (leading Japanese automakers have plants in Thailand). Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, enduring her first grueling test since she assumed power in August, is facing the ire of the people who are threatening to break flood barricades that are keeping inner Bangkok dry while marooning surrounding suburbs.

A man paddles a makeshift raft through a flooded area in the suburbs of Bangkok October 20, 2011. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra defended her government's response to the country's worst floods in half a century on Wednesday as troops battled to protect industrial centres and Bangkok braced for rising waters. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

BANGKOK,THAILAND - OCTOBER 30: A Thai flood victim prays while a monk chants at a crowded evacuation center October 30, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thousands of flood victims have been forced to take shelter at crowded evacuation centers around the capitol city. Hundreds of factories have been closed in the central Thai province of Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi. Thailand is experiencing the worst flooding in over 50 years which has affected more than nine million people. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

BANGKOK, THAILAND - OCTOBER 26: An elderly woman gets put on a truck going toward a hospital down the newly flooded streets near the Chao Phraya river October 26, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. Hundreds of factories closed in the central Thai province of Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi as the flood waters began to reach Bangkok. Around 350 people have died in flood-related incidents since late July according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, with Thailand experiencing the worst flooding in 50 years. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

BANGKOK,THAILAND - NOVEMBER 3: Planes sit on the flooded tarmack of the closed Don Muang airport November 3, 2011 in Bangkok,Thailand. The airport was used as a domestic terminal and was formerly the International airport. Thailand is experiencing the worst flooding in over 50 years and has affected more than nine million people. Over 400 people have died in flood-related incidents since late July according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

A view of a flooded street is reflected on a man's sunglasses at Don Muang district in Bangkok November 3, 2011. Authorities in the Thai capital repaired a damaged flood gate on Wednesday that has become the focus of anger, fear and rivalry between arms of government battling the country's worst floods in decades. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

A 42-year-old motorcycle taxi driver Chatchawal Phuengwut poses with a python he caught in floodwaters just outside the Grand Palace in Bangkok October 28, 2011. Traffic clogged roads out of Bangkok on Friday as thousands of people fled ahead of a high tide that may worsen floods that have inundated factories and prompted foreign governments to warn citizens to stay away from one of Asia's biggest cities. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

BANGKOK,THAILAND - NOVEMBER 3: Men pull eggs in a small boat through the floodwater at the closed Don Muang airport November 3, 2011 in Bangkok,Thailand. The airport was used as a domestic terminal and was formerly the International airport. Thailand is experiencing the worst flooding in over 50 years and has affected more than nine million people. Over 400 people have died in flood-related incidents since late July according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Dogs are seen on a motorcycle next to a flooded street at Don Muang district in Bangkok November 3, 2011. Authorities in the Thai capital repaired a damaged flood gate on Wednesday that has become the focus of anger, fear and rivalry between arms of government battling the country's worst floods in decades. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

Residents sit on a 'tuk-tuk' tricycle taxi as they travel along a flooded street in Bangkok November 6, 2011. The floods in Thailand began in July and have devastated large parts of the central Chao Phraya river basin, killed nearly 400 people and have disrupted the lives of more than two million. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

Houses in a residential area are submerged in floodwaters in the northern section of Bangkok, Thailand, on Sunday Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

Commuters stand amid flood waters while awaiting public transport near Bangkok's Chatuchak market November 7, 2011. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

A Buddhist monk walks down a flooded street while collecting alms in Bangkok November 8, 2011. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang

Residents row a boat in front of a bus along a flooded street in Bangkok November 7, 2011. Flood waters encircled two industrial estates in the east of Bangkok on Monday and disrupted bus services in the Thai capital, although mass transit train systems were still running and central commercial districts remained dry. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

People make their way through a flooded area in Bangkok November 2, 2011. Thai authorities tried to stem growing anger among flood victims on Tuesday as water swamped new neighbourhoods and the government began mapping out a plan costing billions of dollars to prevent a repeat disaster and secure investor confidence. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

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