Myanmar Water Journal - April 2019
Myanmar Water Journal - April 2019
Welcome to the April edition of the Myanmar Water Journal. Providing you the latest news, insights, opportunities and events from the Myanmar water sector.
Special Features of Thingyan Festival
Since Thingyan Festival is a long history and traditional ceremony in Myanmar, we would like to create the vibe. From this edition, Thingyan songs and poem are described in this newsletter.
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April Newsletter will be filled with
- Disaster & Flooding - Due to the chemical runoff from burgeoning banana plantations, the environmental impacts are increased in Kachin State.
- River & Inland Waters - The report of Ayeyarwady Basin Exploratory Scoping Study (BESS) was published.
- Water Supply - Eight Urban Water Experts traveled to Tharketa to address the water issues and challenges
- Capacity Building - Phyo Wae Hein from a final year student won Honda Young Engineer Scientist (YES) award.
We introduced Burmese articles. There are two reasons why we are doing this.
- It's more convenient for our readers to understand water-related projects.
- To provide knowledge sharing from different sources, websites, blogs, brochures, and newspapers, etc - to make it accessible in Burmese.
- Fighting floods with 'Sponge Cities' - an article from Water, Land and Ecosystem (WLE) website - translated by Khaing Su Lwin.
- The movement of saline water into groundwater (aquifers) and Greater Yangon , originally written by U Myint Thein.
- Nature is teaching ....... are we learning? - an article from International Water Association (IWA) - translated by Yin Mon Aung
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