I remember when I stayed in Phuket 7 years ago. They have just got a million euro loan to fix the pipes under the roads and make sure the waste water does not go out in the sea.
They drilled up every bloody road and made a new one trough out Patong beach and we did get a flood but not so much as previous years.
But I can see now that they have no learned anything. Now people are cutting down all the threes on the hill over Phuket and the rain water is coming down same as before.
The street vendor does not help when they dump all their garbage down the drains every day either.