Stockholm Environment Institute recently launched the Chindwin Futures book. SEI has been working for several years in the past to the work in Chindwin River Basin in general and leading to write this book with big support of Myanmar Environment Institute (MEI). What's ...
The Sphere Handbook (Eng/Bur) - Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response
The principal users of The Sphere Handbook are practitioners involved in planning, managing or implementing a humanitarian response. This includes staff and volunteers of local, national and international humanitarian organisations responding to a crisis, as well as affected people themselves. The H...
Nitrogen and Phosphorous Flow Analysis with Focus on Anthropogenic Organic Wastes: A Case Study in Mandalay, Myanmar
In developing countries, many tons of valuable nutrients (mainly Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorous (P)) are lost as waste derived from daily life and agriculture. Nutrient load qualification is an early step for recognizing environmental pollution and a basic requirement for planning environmental s...
Informal Emptying Business in Mandalay: Its Reasons and Financial Impacts
Globally, 2.8 billion people use on-site sanitation facilities, which need regular emptying of accumulated fecal sludge. Illegal dumping from informal emptying businesses, one of the major challenges in environmental management, is widely observed. Considering Mandalay, Myanmar, this study...
Rice Environment Suitability Maps for the Ayeyarwady Region (Ayeyarwady Delta)
Acknowledgements These maps were developed by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) for the Department of Agriculture (DoA). This process was financed by the European Union through International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD): Africa to Asia - Testing Adaptation in Flood-base...
New approach to discharge groundwater in Myanmar and Design & construction of Radial Collector Well in Myanmar
New approach to discharge groundwater in Myanmar with climate change Writer: Myint Thein [National Literary Award Writer (Apply Science)]1. Global climate changes started since last three decades. Seasonally weather forecasting is changing. It is quite different year by year. Heavy rain in a ...
အချက်အလက်ပြရုပ်ပုံ - ရေရှည် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှု အတွက် မြေအောက်ရေ၏ အရေးပါမှု
"ရေရှည် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှု အတွက် မြေအောက်ရေ၏ အရေးပါမှု" အချက်အလက်ပြရုပ်ပုံကားချပ်သည် the Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP) မှ ပါ၀င်သော အဖွဲ့အစည်းများမှ အချက်အလက်များကို ကူညီထားပါတယ်။ ၁၉၅၀ ခုနှစ်က တစ်ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ မြေအောက်ရေ အလွန်အကျွံ ထုတ်ယူသုံးစွဲမှု အဖြစ်က...
Modeling Approach for Earthen Dam Breach Analysis in North Yamar Dam, Myanmar
In case a Dam breach occurs, it is hazardous for lives, properties and environment in downstream extents. Dam break studies are necessary for forecasting of flood disaster and evaluation of hydrological safety among dams. To investigate possible inundationextents and breach outflow, an experim...
Coping with flood disasters: new lessons from COVID-19?
Coping with flood disasters: new lessons from COVID-19?Kyaw Zin Htoon1, Soe Su Su San2, M. Shah Alam Khan3, Mohanasundar Radhakrishnan4 and Chris Zevenbergen4 1Medical doctor Yangon, Myanmar2Myanmar Medical Association, Myanmar3Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh4IHE Delf...
Ontological politics of hydrosocial territories in the Salween River basin, Myanmar/Burma
Source: Academia Taking the Salween River in Myanmar as a case study, this paper draws on a growing body of hydrosocial literature to analyze the multiple ontologies of water taking each ontology to be constituted of-and enacted within-a human-more-than-human assemblage, the spatiote...
Impact of land-use for urbanization on Groundwater YANGON
06 April 2020 - U Myint Thein presents the impact of land use on the Groundwater in Yangon Region. He pointed out that management on groundwater should be properly taken out.according to the existing data and reports.He explains about Population growth and land area development of Yangon The r...
Satellite-based remote sensing: Advanced hands-on training
For Whom The training is aimed at participants from a variety of backgrounds, including policy makers, researchers and the private sector. It is foreseen that an improved awareness of the opportunities offered by remote sensing data and an enhanced skillset of processing and analyzing these data wil...
Groundwater as a Source of Drinking Water in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
The paper establishes a baseline of how many people across case study countries rely on groundwater for drinking water (79%) and explores resource management issues relevant to WASH professionals. The information was used in an analysis of proportions of people using groundwater as their primary sou...
Groundwater Myanmar (some)
U Myint Thein presents (some) Groundwater in Myanmar. He explains the nature of groundwater and its existence. Additionally, He shows - (1) Major aquifer units including Monywa Sub-basin and Pale Sub-basin in Central Myanmar. (2) Utilization of Groundwater (Nation-Wide). (3) Groundwater P...
Application of Capacitive Deionization (CDI) Technology for Treating the Brackish Ground Water in Dala
Introduction The desalination of brackish water is a necessary process due to seawater intrusion and the scarcity of potable water inDala township in the Yangon region of Myanmar. The application of capacitive deionization (CDI) was proposed anddemonstrated for the desalination of ground wate...