Source : OKP Study in Holland The Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) offers scholarships funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs available for a selection of short courses (duration 2 weeks to 12 months) and master's programmes (duration 12 to 24 months). Myanmar is also eligibl...
Virtual workshop: What will you do with water data?
Source: UN Water - The workshop 'What will you do with water data?' is hosted virtually on 23 February at 8 – 9 am ET. The World Bank works closely with partners to achieve its vision of "A Water-Secure World for All" centered on three interrelated pillars: sustain water resources, deliver...
A milestone of the ASEAN Young Climate Leaders Program 2022 (ASEAN YCLP)
The very first ASEAN Young Climate Leaders Program 2022 (ASEAN YCLP) is a leadership development program run by Common Purpose in partnership with ASEAN Foundation, SAP, and GIZ. The Challenge that the participants explored, ideate, and initiate projects on is: "How might we increase ...
To protect the world’s vital wetlands, we must invest in science
As the world prepares to celebrate World Wetlands Day, IWMI reflects on the transformative power of nature-based solutions to tackle climate change — and more. by Matthew McCartney and Lisa-Maria Rebelo, IWMI Source: IWMI - It is now widely accepted that nature-based solutions are imp...
Over-extraction of Groundwater reacts to water level declination toward Yangon sinking
CASE STUDY: Over-exploration of Groundwater reacts to water level declination, Building settlement, and Ground Elevation lower in Thamine, Mayangon TS in Yangon. Myint Thein, Groundwater and Wells Consultant Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. January 2022 1. Object Firstly, the realistic bu...
Webinar Announcement - Drought, COVID and multi-risk assessment
Source: UN-Water - Droughts cause deep and multi-faceted damage to ecosystems, (agro) economies and societies, particularly to vulnerable rural people in developing countries. A forthcoming webinar by the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG) group will examine the multiple ...
Online Course: Change in water-use efficiency over time
Source: FAO elearning Academy - The course provides guidance on the rationale and the main characteristics of Indicator 6.4.1, and on how to compute the two dimensions constituting the indicator: the hydrologic and the economic component. It also highlights possible challenges related to d...
Water Tech Spotlight: the latest technology developments in the water industry | December 2021
Source: International Water Association - By Chunyang (Sophie) Su - Technological solutions and innovations are essential to secure a water-wise future. Water Tech Spotlight is a monthly blog which aims to highlight the latest technology developments in the water industry globally. 1...
ရေနှင့်သက်ဆိုင်သော နောက်ဆုံးပေါ် နည်းပညာများနှင့် ဆန်းသစ်တီထွင်မှုများ
နည်းပညာပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ ဖြေရှင်းချက်များနဲ့ ဆန်းသစ်တီထွင်မှုများက အနာဂတ် ရေကဏ္ဍအတွက် မရှိမဖြစ် အရေးပါပါတယ်။ ဒီဆောင်းပါးမှာ ရေအခန်းကဏ္ဍအတွင်း ဖွံဖြိုးတိုးတက်လာတဲ့ နောက်ဆုံးပေါ်နည်းပညာများကို စုစည်းဖော်ပြထားပါတယ်။ တောင်အာဖရိကစျေးကွက်သို့ ဝင်ရောက်လာသော လျှပ်စစ်မီးမလိုသော မိလ္လာစနစ် South F...
Coming Soon: Htee City Smart Water Mobile Application
Background In November 2018, the Yangon Region Government and the Government of the Netherlands agreed on a 3-year collaboration program of the Partners for International Business (PIB) - Urban Water Logistics for a Greater Yangon. In this program, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), Emba...
Calling young people with big ideas about flood and drought management!
Are you between 15 and 35? Do you have innovative ideas about how the world can better manage droughts and floods? The Global Integrated Flood and Drought Management Competition for youth-led projects is organised by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Global Water Partnership (...
Youth Challenge: Human rights to water and sanitation of peoples living close to the nature
The 5th Human Rights Youth Challenge was launched on World Toilet Day, 19 November. The initiative is organized by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation.Young people across the world (aged between 19 and 24) are being asked to produce a video or any other d...
သဘာဝအခြေပြုဖြေရှင်းနည်း (Nature-based Solutions) ဆိုတာ ဘာတွေလဲ
သဘာဝအခြေပြုဖြေရှင်းနည်း (Nature-based Solutions) ဆိုတာ ကြုံတွေ့နေရတဲ့ အမျိုးမျိုးသော အခက်အခဲ၊ စိန်ခေါ်မှုတွေကို သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ဂေဟစနစ်တစ်ခုလုံးရဲ့ ရှုထောင့်ကနေခြုံငုံပြီး ကာကွယ်ဖြေရှင်းပေးနိုင်တဲ့ "ထီး" သဖွယ် တင်စားလို့ ရနိုင်ပါတယ်။ သဘာဝအခြေပြုဖြေရှင်းနည်းတွေထဲမှာ ဂေဟစနစ် မပျောက်ပျက်အောင်...
Weather-related disasters increase over past 50 years, causing more damage but fewer deaths
Source: World Meteorological Organization - A disaster related to a weather, climate or water hazard occurred every day on average over the past 50 years – killing 115 people and causing US$ 202 million in losses daily, according to a comprehensive new report from the World Meteorological Organ...
Policy recommendations for environmental conservation in the Chindwin River Basin
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) published brief Policy recommendations for environmental conservation in the Chindwin River Basin. The Chindwin Basin is facing habitat loss and species population decline driven by economic development activities combined with the impacts of climate change. Giv...