Thailand's National Water Resources Committee (สทนช.) is rolling out a 21-billion-baht water management project for the lower Huay Luang watershed, extending across Udon Thani and Nong Khai provinces to serve over 300,000 hectares of farmland. The centerpiece is the Ban Dan Muang pumping station—85% complete—designed to manage water bidirectionally: pumping excess monsoon runoff to the Mekong River during wet season, and reversing flow from the Mekong to store up to 250 million cubic meters during dry season. Deployment timescale has been extended to 2025 to address land acquisition and COVID-related delays, with plans to replicate this "Huay Luang Model" across Northeast agricultural zones as a blueprint for flood-drought resilience.