Digital adoption by water utilities, reflections from the experience in the Kenyan water sector

Source : International Water Association - by - Zach White, Senior Insights Manager, GSMA - We are nearing a 'moment' where digital adoption by many water utilities in low- and middle-income countries is increasingly in reach. Technologies are maturing at the same time as many of the ...

မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ်များကို ပင်လယ်ရေမျက်နှာပြင်မြင့်တက်ခြင်းမှ ကာကွယ်ရန် နည်းလမ်း ၄ သွယ်

အလျင်အမြန်မြင့်တက်နေသော ပင်လယ်ရေမျက်နှာပြင်၏ြခိမ်းခြောက်မှုဒဏ်ကိုခံနေရသော မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ်တို့သည် ရေအောက်နစ်မြုပ်တော့မည့် အခြေအနေနှင့်ရင်ဆိုင်နေရသည်။ ပင်လယ်ရေ မျက်နှာပြင် မြင့်တက်လာမှု၏ သက်ရောက်မှုဒဏ်ကိုကာကွယ်နိုင်ရန်အတွက်ဆိုလျှင် မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ်မြေများကို မြစ်တို့မှရရှိသော သဲများ၊ ရွှံ့မြေများနှင့် ...

Lessons learned from the UN Water Conference in Tajikistan

Source : International Water Association - by - Farokh Kakar, Emily Ryan, Jacob Amengor and Isabela Espindola - The Second International High-Level Conference on the International Decade for Action "Water for Sustainable Development" ended on 9 June in Dushanbe, Tajikistan after ...

The Eleventh Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF11)

Source: UN-Habitat - The theme of WUF11, Transforming Our Cities for a Better Urban Future, will highlight a state of informed preparedness that provides us with the opportunity to anticipate change, correct the course of action if necessary, and become more knowledgeable on the different ...

[Extended] Vacancy Announcement _ Junior Project Consultant (National)

Application Deadline: 30 June 2022 (5:00 PM MM Time) The Water Agency (Myanmar) is offering the position of Junior Project Consultant (Myanmar National). JOB DESCRIPTION: The consultant is responsible to Acquire and create content, graphics designand marketing materials for the Myanmar Water Portal,...

The interlinked threats facing lakes and why we need to protect them

Source: UN environment programme -  Across the world, lakes fed by rivers, glacial melt, groundwater and rain have played an important role in human civilization and development. They contain 90 per cent of the fresh water on the planet's surface, house an array of wildlife, and make possi...

Change in global freshwater storage

Freshwater in both natural and man-made stores is critical for socioeconomic development. Globally, cumulative reduction in terrestrial water storage from 1971 to 2020 is estimated to be of the order of 27,079 Bm3. Although insignificant in comparison to the total volume stored, the decrease in 'ope...

Marine Warriors Hand-in Workshop

Source: World Learning - The 2022 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Regional Workshop: Marine Warriors brings together participants from ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste to examine recent environmental changes and consequences in the Central Coastal regions of Vietnam. Funded by ...

If humans and robots collaborate, what will it mean for our wetlands?

Source: International Water Association - By Samurdhi Ranasinghe, Senior Communications Officer, IWMI - Wetlands are among the planet's most threatened ecosystems, disappearing at a rate three times faster than rainforests. In Sri Lanka, eclipsed by the hustle and bustle of the capital city of Colom...

Register for WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning) Training

WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning) is a software tool for integrated water resources planning. It provides a comprehensive, flexible and user-friendly framework for policy analysis. Over the last decade, an integrated approach to water development has emerged that places water supply projects in t...

Community co-management can help protect wetlands biodiversity in the Chindwin River Basin

Source: Stockholm Environment Institute - For International Biodiversity Day 2022, SEI Asia researchers reflect on the challenges in conserving biodiversity in the wetlands of Myanmar's Chindwin River Basin. Myanmar's Upper Chindwin Basin has some of the Indo-Burma region's most critical b...

Building Forward Better Initiative – new website

Source: UN Water - The FAO Land and Water Division has launched the new website of the Building Forward Better Initiative. The Building Forward Better Initiative "addresses countries in fragility and contributes to reduce the technical and knowledge gap hallmarking vulnerable contexts". This re...

The latest technology developments in the water industry - May 2022

Source: International Water Association - By Chunyang (Sophie) Su - Tech solutions and innovations are the mainstays towards a water-wise world. Water Tech Spotlight aims to highlight worldwide the latest technology developments in the water industry. Scroll down to find out more. 1. GROUN...

The perspectives of local marginalized groups upon water in the midst of COVID-19 in Myanmar

COVID-19 pandemic has been changing our day-to-day activities since the beginning. Water becomes an essential element, and access to clean water is crucial to reducing the risk of COVID-19. In addition, the regions where water insecurity pre-exists before the pandemic increased the need for clean wa...

ဒီရေတောများတွင် တွေ့ရတတ်သည့် သဘာဝဇီဝစနစ်များကို သဏ္ဍာန်ယူတုပထားသည့် ပင်လယ်ရေကိုရေချိုအဖြစ်ပြောင်းလဲခြင်း နည်းပညာသစ်

စင်ကာပူနိုင်ငံရှိ Public Utilities Board (PUB) သည် စွမ်းအင်အများအပြားအသုံးပြုရသည့် ပင်လယ်ရေငန်ကိုရေချိုအဖြစ်ပြောင်းလဲခြင်း လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်အား ပိုမို ထိရောက်လာစေရန် ရည်ရွယ်၍ နည်းပညာအသစ်တစ်ခုကို တီထွင်ဖော်ဆောင်လျက်ရှိသည်။ ထိုနည်းပညာကို တီထွင်ပြီးမြောက်သွားပါက နိုင်ငံ၏ ရေနှင့်စွမ်းအင် ဆိုင်ရာ ဖူလုံမှုကို မ...

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