{
  "id": 19724322,
  "title": "Chiang Rai Water Security Moves Beyond Emergency Supplies",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/chiang-rai-water-security-moves-beyond-emergency-supplies",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-12T23:16:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Chiang Rai Times",
    "slug": "chiang-rai-times",
    "url": "https://www.chiangraitimes.com/environment/chiang-rai-water-security/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "CHIANG RAI – Provincial water authorities are abandoning reliance on cross-border waterways in northern Thailand, shifting primary municipal intake from the Kok River to the domestic Lao River after heavy metal spikes forced emergency shutoffs across border communities. The Provincial Waterworks Authority rolled out the multi-phase pivot this week after arsenic contamination in the neighboring…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}