Phase 1 - Drainage Intervention - Thaketa Climate Adaptation Project

13 July 2020 – We were very happy to see that the community is already taking its own initiatives to reduce the impact of flooding. Over the past months, the Ward Officer of Ward 5 undertook to upgrade and restore a large part of the drainage network in his neighborhood, removing sediment, cleaning,...

Ensuring flood season does not worsen spread of COVID-19 is a must

15 July 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - With flood season on the horizon, local authorities are preparing to face the dual challenge of COVID-19 and floods in their respective regions. The swollen Ayeyawady River inaundated low-lying areas in Myitkyina and Waigmaw in Kachin State o...

Ayeyarwady water level rising in Shwegu and Katha

15 July 2020 - Source: Mizzima - The water level in Ayeyarwady River is rising in Shwegu Township, Kachin State and Katha Town in Sagaing Region. Director General of Meteorology and Hydrology Department, Kyaw Moe Oo, said and was reaching danger levels. 13 village-tracts and 6,143 acres of farm...

Kachin State flood victims get relief assistance

13 July 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Officials from Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement along with governmental officials from Kachin State provided relief aids to flood victims in Kachin State yesterday. The flood water from the Ayeyawady inundated low-lying are...

Floods hit low-lying wards in Myitkyina

13 July 2020 - Source: Eleven Myanmar - Low-lying wards in Myitkyina Township, Kachin State, are flooded as the water level of Ayeyawady River has reached 1,046 cm after the incessant heavy downpours in northern Myanmar. On 12 July, the natural disaster preparedness committee evacuated 107 popu...

Water flows into lower areas of Kani

11 July 2020 - Source: Eleven Myanmar - Water is covered some villages located in lower areas in Kani Township, Sagaing Region since the evening of July 9 as water level in Chindwin River is increased, sources said. "Lower areas of Sinthay, Kyarmaw, Shwemyinmo, and Kachin villages are covered w...

Phase 1 - Rainwater Harvesting Interventions - Thaketa Climate Adaptation Project

10 July 2020 – Our local team finished the installation of rainwater harvesting systems in 4 different locations in Thaketa township, Yangon. Through these 4 initial interventions, we aim to make the first steps in engaging the community with rainwater harvesting and educate them about how collectin...

River erosion-related displacement increases this year in Magway Region

10 July 2020 - Source: The Global New Light of Myanmar The number of people displaced by river bank erosion has increased this year in Magway Region when compared to that of last year, according to the Disaster Management Department. Although only about 200 households were displaced by the river ban...

Sesame plants in Magway under threat by drought

10 July 2020 - Source: The Global New Light of Myanmar A ten-day drought in Magway Township is likely to damage the sesame plants, according to the local sesame growers. "The 45-day-old sesame plants are being faced with the problem of lack of rain this year. Now, it is the blossoming time but we co...

မိုးရွာသွန်းမှုနည်းပါးပြီး ကန်ရေအနည်းငယ်သာ ရရှိခြင်းကြောင့် သောက်သုံးရေ ရှားပါးနေဆဲဖြစ်သည့် ရေစကြိုမြို့နယ် ဥက္ကံကျေးရွာအား Eleven Media Group နှင့် စေတနာရှင်များ ပူးပေါင်းရေလှူဒါန်း

8 July 2020 - Source: Eleven Media Group Co.,Ltd. မိုးရွာသွန်းမှု နည်းပါးပြီး ကန်ရေအနည်းငယ်သာ ရရှိခြင်းကြောင့် သောက်သုံးရေ ရှားပါးနေဆဲဖြစ်သည့် ရေစကြိုမြို့နယ် ဥက္ကံကျေးရွာအား Eleven Media Group နှင့် စေတနာရှင်များ ပူးပေါင်းပြီး ယခု ဇူလိုင်လအတွင်း ရေလှူဒါန်း ပေးလျက်ရှိသည်။ ဇွန်လကုန်ပိုင်း မိုးရွာသွန်...

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ကမ္ဘာ့ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလွဲလာမူ့သည် (၂၀၁၀)ခုနှစ်ဝှန်းကျင်ကစ၍ သိသိသာသာပြောင်းလွဲလာသည် အပူချိန်ပျမ်းမျှ (၃) ဒီဂရီ ဆဲလ်ဆီးရပ်စ်ခန့် အနေအထားမှာရှိနေပြီ။ မိုးရွာသွန်းမူ့သည်လည်း မမှန်ကန်၊မမျှတတော့၊ မိုးများသည့်နေရာမိုးများ၊ မိုးခေါင်သည့်နေရာမိုးခေါင်၊ မိုးခေါင်‌တော့ရေရှား၊ မိုးများသည့်နေရာရေလျှံ စသည...

Union Minister U Thant Sin Maung inspects Nyaungdon embankment project

6 July 2020 - Source: The Global New Light of Myanmar Union Minister for Transport and Communications U Thant Sin Maung inspected Nyaungdon embankment project on 4 July.The Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems acting Director-General U Win Hlaing, and relevant officials ac...

Myanmar Water Journal - June 2020

Myanmar Water Journal - June 2020 Welcome to the June 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 ThemesJune Newsletter will be filled withSummary and Dialogues of Let's Talk...

Summary and Dialogues of Episode 1 - Let's Talks about Farmer-led Water Sharing System in Myanmar

On 26th of June, 2020, Myanmar Water Portal has initiated Let's Talk About Water – Talk show Episode 1 with guest speakers, Dr. Petra Schmitter and Sanjiv de Silva from International Water Management Institute (IWMI) – Myanmar. Hosted by Kyaw Nyunt Linn, a communication manager of The Water Agency, ...

Ants in Yangon Saving Rainwater

"If we save it in time, we don't have to be concerned about water shortage during summer, when the heat is intense" by Daw Khin Aye Kyu, 77-year-old, who lives in Tharketa, Yangon We all know the famous fable about The Ant and the Grasshopper, telling us the story of the hardworking ant that collect...

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