A depressing view of the dry riverbed of the Ping river at Doi Lor district, Chiang Mai province. The Ping river is one of the four main tributaries to Chao Phraya, one of the major rivers in Thailand that supplies water to agriculture areas in the north and the central of Thailand.

Mr Sunan Tapin, 64, stands at the mango plantation affected by drought due to El Niño phenomenon in Doi Lor district, Chiang Mai province. Mr. Tapin, owns a 3 hectare mango plantation, and is one of the farmers in Chiang Mai that contributed to the creation of a pond to get water for irrigation from the Ping river. He is worried that if El Niño continues, farmers will be losing their plantations.