2 MAR 2020 - Source: Myanmar Now - The 500 residents of Karen state's Yedwingone village now depend on the charity of others for clean drinking water. Until recently, each of the 120 households in this village near the state capital Hpa-an got all the water it needed from its own well. Bu...
Research needed to manage summer water shortage in rural areas
29 Feb 20 - Source: Global New Light Of Myanmar - Due to warmer temperatures in the summer, droughts and depleting water supply will likely become more common in Myanmar. The water crisis in rural areas every summer highlights the need for better urban planning and management. Last year, the number ...
Framework for establishing environmental flows in the Ayeyarwady
28 FEB 2020 - Source: The Australian Water Partnership - The Australian Water Partnership (AWP) is supporting an Environmental Flows (e-flows) project in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady River Basin (ARB), with the objective of developing an e-flows policy framework for its adoption. There are many fl...
Rising sea levels put Myanmar's villages on frontline of climate change
27 Feb 20 - Source: BAGO, Myanmar (Reuters) - Three years ago, the villagers watched as the Sittaung River on Myanmar's southeast coast crept closer to them, swollen by powerful tidal surges from the Gulf of Mottama that eroded its banks. Eventually, the 1,500 residents of Ta Dar U had to accept t...
ကမ္ဘာ့အရှည်ဆုံးမြစ်များထဲမှ သုံးပုံတစ်ပုံသာ လွတ်လပ်စွာ စီးဆင်းနေသည်။
လွတ်လပ်စွာ စီးဆင်းနေသောမြစ်များ၏ တည်နေရာနှင့် အတိုင်းအတာ ပမာဏကို တွက်ချက်ထားသော ကမ္ဘာ့ပထမဆုံး လေ့လာအကဲဖြတ်မှုသည် ကြီးမားသော ယုတ်လျော့ပျက်စီးမှုကို မီးမောင်းထိုးပြနေသည်။ WWF နှင့် မိတ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့များ၏ လေ့လာချက်အရ လူနှင့် သဘာဝအတွက် ကျန်းမာသော မြစ်များမှ ရရှိသော အမျိုးမျိုးသောအကျိုးကျေးဇူးများသည် နေရာတိုင...
Yangon Water Bus to use Singapore, Thai ferries when service resumes
20 Feb 20 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Yangon Water Bus river transport service has ordered passenger ferries from Singapore and Thailand to replace its old vessels once it resumes operation, the company that runs the line said. Daw Tint Tint Lwin, chair of Tint Tint Myanmar Co., said it has also s...
မိုက်ခရိုပလတ်စတစ်တွေဟာ ရေဆိုးသန့်စင်မှုအတွက် စိန်ခေါ်ချက်တစ်ခုလား။
ပလတ်စတစ် ပြဿနာနှင့် ၎င်းကနေ ကမ္ဘာ့သမုဒ္ဒရာဂေဟစနစ်အပေါ် သက်ရောက်နေတဲ့ ထိခိုက်မှုတွေကို ကောင်းစွာမှတ်တမ်းတင်ထားခဲ့ပြီးပြီ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ သတင်းတွေမှာ ဖော်ြပကြတဲ့ ပလတ်စတစ်အမှိုက်တွေ ပြန့်ကျဲ ပြည့်နှက်နေတဲ့ ပင်လယ်ဓာတ်ပုံတွေနဲ့ ၎င်းတို့ကြား ပင်လယ်နေသတ္တဝါတွေပိတ်မိနေရပုံ စတဲ့ စိ...
Climate Change Adaption in Myanmar (Facilitator Guide)
The overall aim of the training course is to build the capacity of national and local governments for integrating CCA and DRR measures into local development plans. The course modules are tailored to equip government officials with robust knowledge on climate change and its impacts in Myanmar, as we...
Upgrading Myanmar's aging irrigation system will be a win for farmers and govt
06 Feb 20 - Source: CIGAR | WLE - Myanmar's food future hinges on ensuring access to water, especially in times of worsening drought. This is especially true in the Central Dry Zone – the country's most water-stressed region. Rainfall is often highly erratic, and many areas have been seeing less and...
ကျိုးပျက်နိုင်သော စံချိန်များ (ထောင်စုနှစ် မိုးခေါင်ရေရှားမှု သင်ခန်းစာများ)
သြစတြေးလျနိုင်ငံသည် မကြာခဏ မိုးခေါင်ရေရှားပါးမှုသမိုင်းရှည်ကြာရှိသော နိုင်ငံတစ်ခုဖြစ်သည်။ ထိုနည်းတူစွာပင် ၄င်း၏ ရေစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုအများစုမှာလည်း ရေရှားပါးမှုကို ကိုင်တွယ်ဖြေရှင်းနိုင်ရန် အားထုတ်ခဲ့ကြသည်။ မြို့တော်များ ရပ်ကွက်များ နှင့် အဓိကရေသွင်းစိုက်ပျိုးရေး စနစ်များ၊ အထူးသဖြင့်တန်ဖိုးမြင့်မားသော၊ ရ...
Myanmar Water Journal - January 2020
Myanmar Water Journal - January 2020 Welcome to the January 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 ThemesJanuary Newsletter will be filled with15 min documentary - Biodi...
Gulf of Mottama Wetland more than triples in size as newest Ramsar site
03 Feb 20 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Gulf of Mottama Wetland conservation area has been expanded from 42,500 hectares to 161,030 hectares after its adjacent area was declared the sixth Ramsar Site in Myanmar on Sunday. A Ramsar site is a wetland site designated to be of international importance u...
Thailand firm to build new urban centre with construction ministry
28 Jan 20 - Source: Myanmar Times - The construction ministry inked a deal with a Thai firm to build a US$1 billion "smart city" in northeastern Yangon. The JV agreement - signed last Friday - would pave way to more than 30,000 new jobs and US$60 million in direct tax, the two sides said. The minist...
National Waste Management Strategy and Action Plan for Myanmar (2017-2030)
The National Waste Management Strategy and Action Plan is the first national initiative aimed at institutionalising waste management and offers a visionary document and strategic guide to address key issues, needs and challenges whilst raising awareness amongst key stakeholders towards achieving a r...
Clean up, waste clean up……. Saving Yangon river for an hour
River Clean Up Campaign was yearly organized at Botahtaung river front to give a message to the public becoming more aware of river pollution in Yangon river. with the collaboration of the embassy of the kingdoms of the Netherlands and Think Maritime Company limited, volunteers led by Yangon City De...