Deputy Prime Minister Suchart Chomklin confirmed that the government will not raise the arsenic standard from 0.01 mg/L to 0.05 mg/L. The government is also committed to introducing stricter environmental standards to protect the public.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has spent the run-up to next week's election touting himself as the finest steward of the nation's air and water in generations. "Who would have thought," he boasted during one stop in Florida, "Trump is the great environmentalist?"