Created by Ingrid Nesheim, Zaw Lwin Tun, Toe Aung, Hla Oo Nwe. An important aim of the IWRM Institutional Building and Training project is to pilot test the river basin management approach in Myanmar. The purpose is to investigate how cooperation between different sectors on riv...
New Yangon City to be Built on Land West of the Yangon River
H.E. U Phyo Min Thein, Chief Minister of Yangon Regional Government, announced the launch of New Yangon Development Company Ltd. ("NYDC") on 31st March 2018. The objective of NYDC is to create economic growth, homes and jobs via the development of land to the west of Yangon River.&nb...
Characterization of the Bago Sub basin Pilot implementing the EU Water Framework Directive
Created by Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA). The aim of this report is to characterize the Bago Sub-basin, located in the Bago Region in the south-central part of Myanmar. The report presents the different characterization steps, including methods for identifying water use and water use...
Integrated Water Resources Management in Myanmar: Water usage and introduction to water quality criteria for lakes and rivers in Myanmar Preliminary report
Created by Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA). The purpose of the report is to present some first recommendation for the development of Myanmar ecological quality criteria using the system of the EU Water Framework Directive (EU WFD) as baseline, with main focus on the cha...
Integrated Water Resources Management in Myanmar: Assessing ecological status in Inlay Lake Preliminary report
Created by Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA). The report is one of the deliverables of the project Integrated water resources management – Institutional building and training. The main purpose of the report has been to achieve improved knowledge about aquatic biodiversity and ...
A proposal for an administrative set up of river basin management in the Sittaung River Basin
Created by By Zaw Lwin Tun, Bo Ni, and Sein Tun and Ingrid Nesheim. The purpose of this report is to present a proposal for how an administrative approach based on River Basin Management can be implemented in Myanmar. The Sittaung River Basin has been used as an example area to i...
Unexpected thunderstorm hits Yangon
Source: The Global New Light Of Myanmar Date: 4 April 2018 Thunderstorms, lightning, isolated heavy rainfall, and gale-force winds hit Yangon yesterday, knocking down trees, ripping off roofs, causing power outages and dropping temperatures. "The strong wind hit for 20 minutes. It ...
Flashfloods inundate downtown Yangon
Source: Myanmar Times Date: 4 April 2018 Heavy rain flooded roads in Yangon on Tuesday during a thunderstorm, and the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology said the country is entering the pre-monsoon period. Thunderstorms are likely to occur across the country, especially in the afternoon and ev...
Conservationists halve area set aside for dolphin project
Source: Myanmar Times Date: 4 April 2018 Photo: Google The Ayeryarwady dolphin conservation team has reduced its planned conservation area for the endangered species due to a lack of human and financial resources, said U Han Win, chief of the Ayeyarwady dolphin conservation team of the Fisheries De...
Utilization of Water Resources in Myanmar
Source: The Global New Light Of Myanmar Date: 4 April 2018 Myanmar is primarily an agricultural country and the economy of the nation is also mainly depends on the agricultural products. To increase the agricultural productions for the rising demand of a growing population, double crop cultivation ...
Flight or fight
Source: Myanmar Times Date: 3 April 2018 Birdwatchers battle to save Paleik Lake, a haven for water birds Every year scores of birds flock to Paleik Lake, 14 kilometres east of Mandalay, where they sojourn for up to two months before continuing thousands of kilometers north or south in search of br...
Yangon mulls construction of sea port at river
Source: Myanmar Times Date: 3 April 2018 Photo- Google Plans to build an international sea port at the mouth of the Yangon River, which will be strategic for Myanmar and its neighbours, are underway, Yangon Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein said yesterday at the meeting with Vice President held at Re...
Framework notes and recommendations for Integrated Water Resource Management in Myanmar
Created by Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA). This report presents over five chapters information on, International IWRM frameworks and key elements for a modern water law; an overview of the current relevant environmental policies and laws in Mya...