19 APR 2020 - Source: The Global New Light of Myanmar - The Rural Development Department staff led by Daw Kyi Kyi Khine, the township head, distributed 4,400 gallons of drinking water in Gwaykantaung village in Natmauk township, Magway region yesterday for sufficient supply of drinking water i...
Myanmar Water Journal - March 2020
Myanmar Water Journal - March 2020 Welcome to the March edition of the Myanmar Water Journal. Providing you the latest news, insights, opportunities and events from the Myanmar water sector. Spotlights for News based on Water ThemesMarch Newsletter will be filled with4 min video talking about the wo...
Webinar on the UN World Water Development Report 2020
?Webinar Alert! The Water Youth Network in collaboration with UNESCO invites you to an exciting joint #webinar on the #UN World Water Development Report 2020: #Water and #ClimateChange: https://lnkd.in/eyE8zAt Join the discussion with our featured speaker Dr. Engin Koncagul When: April 17th 2020, 15...
DRD, UNICEF target nearly 4,000 hand wash basins countrywide
16 April 20 - Source: Global New Light Of Myanmar - The Department of Rural Development and the UNICEF have set up 3,520 hand wash basins, out of the planned 3926 units in 2,798 villages of 162 townships in Myanmar. The state department and the UN agency have put the hand wash basins into places of ...
Exports of fisheries products slow to a crawl
8 APR 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - Exports of Myanmar's fisheries products to other countries have nearly stopped since the COVID-19 pandemic started and factories processing frozen fisheries products are now facing difficulties keeping their operations running, industry officials...
ကာဗွန်လျော့ချနိုင်မည့် စီးပွားရေးကိုအားပေးသော အမျှော်အမြင်ရှိသည့် ရေစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှု
ပါရီသဘောတူညီချက်သည် ကမ္ဘာကြီးပူနွေးလာမှုကို ၂ဒီဂရီစင်တီဂရိတ်အောက်တွင် ဆက်လက်ရှိနေစေရန်နှင့် ၁.၅ဒီဂရီစင်တီဂရိတ် အထိကန့်သတ်ရန် ကြိုးပမ်းအားထုတ်မှုများအတွက် ကြုံတောင့်ကြုံခဲ အခွင့်အရေးတစ်ခုဖြစ်သည်။ ၎င်းသည် ကာဗွန်ဒိုင်အောက်ဆိုက် လျော့ချသည့်စီးပွားရေးကို ရှေ့သို့ခေါ်ဆောင်စေမည့် အဓိကကျသော ခြေလှမ်းတစ်ခုဖြ...
Vast majority in Myanmar now support closing wildlife markets - WWF survey
7 April 2020 - Source: Myanmar Now - A huge majority of people in Myanmar support shutting down wildlife markets to prevent another pandemic, a survey released on Monday by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has found. Ninety-one per cent of respondents in Myanmar said they believed the closure of illega...
Impact of land-use for urbanization on Groundwater YANGON
06 April 2020 - U Myint Thein presents the impact of land use on the Groundwater in Yangon Region. He pointed out that management on groundwater should be properly taken out.according to the existing data and reports.He explains about Population growth and land area development of Yangon The r...
IWT to arrange ferry schedules during Thingyan festival
6 April 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - "We will arrange the operation times to have smooth transportation for the commuters during six days of Thingyan Festival. The ferry operators will slash operation times, said Assistant Manager U Thein Myint of the Inland Water Transpo...
Apply now for a Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship
03 April 2020 - Source: IHE DELFT Application deadline: April 23, 2020. The Joint Japan/Worldbank Graduate Scholarship Programme (JJWBGSP) is accepting applications to one of their preferred programs, including three MSc Programme Specializations from IHE Delft, until the application deadline...
Online MOOC - Water Resources Management and Policy
Target Audience This MOOC is designed for all those interested in the water sector. Prior training is not necessary to follow our program. The findings presented in this course can be easily reapplied to different contexts and to different scales of analysis. Description Water management today is fa...
‘Not Enough Water to Wash Our Hands,’ Say Kachin IDPs Bracing For COVID-19
2 APRIL 2020 - Source: Burma News International - While thorough handwashing has been proven as an effective strategy to fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kachin State's camps say that the current water shortage prevents them from being able...
Online MOOC - Engineering: Building with Nature
A massive open online course (MOOC) is a free Web-based distance learning program that is designed for the participation of large numbers of geographically dispersed students. Target Audience If you're interested in the concept of building with nature, then this is the engineering course for you. Fo...
QGIS for Hydrological Applications
31 March 2020 - Source: LinkedIn This is the time to learn new skills! Join Kurt Menke and me in our weekly free webinar on QGIS for Hydrological Applications. 7 weeks long, every Friday from 9 - 10 pm CET - 2:30 AM YGN (Saturday). We'll start tomorrow with georeferencing a scanned map ...
Fishing communities risk crocodile attacks in the Ayeyarwady delta
30 MAR 2020 - Source: Frontier Myanmar On an island in the Ayeyarwady delta, saltwater crocodiles and fishing communities make unhappy neighbours, with environmental degradation driving deadly attacks. By HEIN THAR | FRONTIER Photos HKUN LAT ONLY THE sound of the boat's engine could be heard ...