People tend to an unconscious Thai soldier after he fainted during an evacuation operation at a flooded neighborhood in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. Bangkok authorities are telling more residents to leave as floodwaters threaten southwestern neighborhoods in the Thai capital. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
People tend to an unconscious Thai soldier after he fainted during an evacuation operation at a flooded neighborhood in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. Bangkok authorities are telling more residents to leave as floodwaters threaten southwestern neighborhoods in the Thai capital. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
People carry an unconscious Thai soldier after he fainted during an evacuation operation at a flooded neighborhood in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. Bangkok authorities are telling more residents to leave as floodwaters threaten southwestern neighborhoods in the Thai capital. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
An elderly Thai couple and their pets ride a boat as they are evacuated from a flooded neighborhood in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. Bangkok authorities are telling more residents to leave as floodwaters threaten southwestern neighborhoods in the Thai capital. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
A Thai man rides a jet ski on a flooded street in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. Bangkok authorities are telling more residents to leave as floodwaters threaten southwestern neighborhoods in the Thai capital. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Thai passengers wade through floodwaters to get into a bus on Phisi Charoen district in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has struck a note of partial optimism over the floods plaguing her country, saying that if the water penetrates into the capital's central districts, it will not be too deep. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
BANGKOK (AP) ? Bangkok authorities are telling more residents to leave as floodwaters threaten southwestern neighborhoods in the Thai capital.
Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra said people should evacuate three neighborhoods due to surging water levels. He said Sunday pumps were operating around the clock and more pumps were being added to help drain the water.
Still, floodwaters are receding elsewhere. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said previously the city center would have light flooding if the water penetrated that far but western areas of Bangkok were threatened with inundation.
The national death toll from floods since late July has reached 536. More than 13.1 million people ? one in five Thais ? are affected.
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