The PM will submit a 165-billion-baht plan to divert floodwater from Chai Nat through the Pasak River to the Gulf, expanding the canal about four times and taking eight years. It is part of a wider 250-billion-baht eastern drainage plan, alongside a Bang Ban-Bang Sai canal and a 90-billion-baht "second Chao Phraya" project. For a small business, this is a long-term flood-risk story: no immediate action, but watch for construction work, land-use changes and flood-protection needs in the Central Plains and Bangkok over the coming years.