Source: The Water AgencyDate: June 21st, 2019 From June 10-14, 2019, a workshop 'Scoping the interventions for Thaketa township' was organized in Yangon as part of the Urban Water track of the Partners in Business: Urban Water Logistics for a Greater Yangon (PIB UWLY) program. Previously a successfu...

Children collect water for daily use at a village on the outskirts of Mandalay. Photo - EPA

11 June 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (Assembly of the Union) has approved an offer of assistance from the Netherlands government and loans from two Netherlands banks for a water supply project in Pyigyitagun township, Mandalay Region. The assembly voted last Friday on the proj...

Young Water Professionals from Indo-Pacific region at Ozwater’19 (Photo cerdit: Australian Water Association)

Written by Pyae Phyo Kyaw It was around mid-march when I saw a post on the Myanmar Water Portal website that scholarships were available for international young water professionals from the Indo-Pacific region to attend Ozwater'19 this May. Ozwater is Australia's international water conference and e...

The Ayeyarwaddy River near Pakokku in Magway Region. (Victoria Milko | Frontier)

It's time that the nation's most important single natural resource benefitted from a dedicated management authority.  By JOERN KRISTENSEN | FRONTIER 06 March 19 - Source: Frontier Myanmar - THE CONTINUING conundrum over Myitsone, concern among farmers over river bank erosion in the dry zone and...

State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Korean Senior Economic Adviser Mr. Kim Hyun Chul open the ceremony to launch construction of the Myanmar-Korea Friendship Bridge in Dala, Yangon Region yesterday. Photo: Bo Bo/MNA

​25 Dec 18 - Source: Global New Light Of Myanmar - State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi attended a ground breaking ceremony to launch construction of the Myanmar-Korea Friendship Bridge in Dala, Yangon Region yesterday.At the ceremony, the State Counsellor pressed a button to drive a pile to l...

Leapfrogging Delta Session in Greater Mekong Forum 2018

On the 4th of December 2018, there was a session – Smart Innovations for better decision-making in Deltas that several Dutch innovators together with Myanmar experts have tested and demonstrated new ways of both remote sensing and ground data collection in combination with modelling. Seven of the Du...

Cleaning Yangon is an endless task for the YCDC as more rubbish is generated than workers can collect. Aung Myin Ye Zaw/The Myanmar Times

​10 Dec 18 - Source: Myanmar Times - The clearing of rubbish from alleys in Yangon resumed again last week in the townships of Kyeemyindaing and Tamwe following a temporary suspension of the work due to the monsoon season, says the Yangon City Development Committee's Department of Pollution Con...

SEA – Final Report For Stakeholder Review The SEA Final Report recommends a balance between hydropower development and natural resource protection in each major river basin in Myanmar, contributing to the healthy functioning of these rivers for the next century and beyond. It also recommends im...

Room for the Rivers in Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Representatives of Dutch Water Sector, Silke Nauta explained the technology of WaveDroid and Flore Bijker from Infram about "Room for the Rivers" to Myanmar undergraduate and postgraduate students at University of Yangon. So then, I asked two questions what the Wavedroid is, why Room ...

People wade along a flooded street in Mawlamyine township in Mon State in June. Photo - Khan Ti

​22 Oct 18 - Myanmar Times - While Myanmar has drafted policies and initiated projects to address climate change, more needs to be done at the state and regional level, said U Than Aye, retired deputy director general of the Department of Environmental Conservation. Projects have been drawn up ...

Women in Chaung U township in Sagaing Region, Myanmar, make a living delivering lunch to farmers. (Photos by Wichai Yuntavaro/SEI)

​Source -The Third Poles - Local communities in the remote region rely on the river and its biodiversity for their food, fuel and livelihoods, resources that are increasingly under threat. The Chindwin Basin is rich in biodiversity, with almost 47% still under forest cover. Originating in the l...

August 31, 2018 – UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and strategic partner, UN-Habitat kicked off the Yangon City Charette for Global Future Cities Programme

​Yangon faces a number of inseparable challenges, while the different sectors in the city are starting to approach them as also deeply interrelated. Despite the recent growing interest internationally in the city, rapid urbanisation, coupled with challenging urban legislative frameworks mean that fo...

​With MyanmarWater 2018 only two weeks away, we are happy to announce the program that the Myanmar Water Portal will host on the event. The Myanmar Water Portal is the official communication partner for upcoming edition of MyanmarWater – meaning we will be present to report on the conference session...

On 12th of July 2018, World Wildlife Fund Myanmar (WWF – Myanmar) organized a Free-Flowing Rivers Workshop in Yangon. Free-Flowing Rivers can be quoted when they are connected in four following ways. 1. Longitudinally, a river should be connected between upstream and downstream. 2. Lateral...