Water Filtration Systems for Developing Countries

Source: healingwaters.org - By: deborah.bense What is Ultrafiltration and Reverse Osmosis? Ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis are two ways to treat water. These processes remove dangerous contaminants, making the water safe to drink. Water treatment technologies like ultrafiltration and revers...

Deionized Water: The Benefits and Risks

Source: sprinewellwater.comWater comes in different types – tap water, purified water, filtered water and alkaline water, to name a few. While many are safe to drink, they're usually unfit for applications that use water as a rinse, ingredient, or solvent (think the food, cosmetic, and medical indus...

Report: The essential drop to reach Net-Zero: Unpacking Freshwater's Role in Climate Change Mitigation

Source: Stockholm UniversityNew research presented at COP27 shows that water is much more important in mitigating climate change than previously believed. Better management of water is critical to tackling today's food and energy crises, both of which are exacerbated by climate change.The repor...

Water for 1.5 — the climate benefits of good water management

Source: The Australian Water Partnership - By: By Tony Slatyer, Water Policy GroupLimiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels, as agreed to be pursued under the Paris Agreement, requires everyone to act much more quickly. Good work is already being done by wat...

10 Interesting Facts About Water Scarcity

Source: Healing Waters InternationalClean and fresh water isn't a privilege—it's a necessity. Although water covers a large portion of our planet, most of that water isn't fit for human consumption. According to the World Wildlife Federation, only three percent of all earth's water comes from freshw...

Climate change impacts on the water, food and energy sectors in Myanmar’s Sittaung river basin

Source: SEI - The Sittaung river basin (SRB) remains one of the least studied basins of Myanmar in terms of the assessment of the impact of climate change. As several reservoirs already exist in the basin, much research is needed to understand how projected climate change impacts rainfall, temp...

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...

ရေနှင့်သက်ဆိုင်​သော ​နောက်ဆုံး​ပေါ် နည်းပညာများနှင့် ဆန်းသစ်တီထွင်မှုများ

နည်းပညာပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ ဖြေရှင်းချက်များနဲ့ ဆန်းသစ်တီထွင်မှုများက အနာဂတ် ရေကဏ္ဍအတွက် မရှိမဖြစ် အရေးပါပါတယ်။ ဒီဆောင်းပါးမှာ ရေအခန်းကဏ္ဍအတွင်း ဖွံဖြိုးတိုးတက်လာတဲ့ နောက်ဆုံးပေါ်နည်းပညာများကို စုစည်းဖော်ပြထားပါတယ်။  တောင်အာဖရိကစျေးကွက်သို့ ဝင်ရောက်လာသော လျှပ်စစ်မီးမလိုသော မိလ္လာစနစ် South F...

The Amarapura Project - Improving Water Service in Mandalay City

"Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all" (SDG 6)."Making the cities in Myanmar more sustainable, more resilient and more inclusive" (SDG 11). We did an interview with Thibaut Le Loc'h, the coordinator of the Water, Sanitation and Solid Waste Management program...

Access to Clean and Safe Water in Yangon: A Case of Municipal Water Provision in Insein Township

The provision of safe and reliable water supply is important to all urban dwellers. Actually, urban water supply systems aim to be a safe and reliable water supply for all urban residents. But the municipal water supply with improved public hygiene is still inadequate even in the major cities of Yan...

SDG 6 Progress Reports

The monitoring of progress towards SDG 6 is a means to achieve the goal. High-quality data help policy- and decision-makers at all levels of government  to identify challenges and opportunities, to set priorities for more effective and efficient implementation, to communicate progress...

Hydrogeochemical and socio-hydrogeological assessment of the Inle Lake catchment (Southern Shan State Myanmar)

Since 2013, the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department of Pavia University has been conducting an educational and research project in collaboration with the University of Mandalay (Myanmar), the second largest University in Myanmar. The project was initially funded through the Erasmus Mundus PA...

မြစ်တစ်စင်း၏ ငိုကြွေးသံ - ရာသီဥတု ပြောင်းလဲခြင်းကြောင့် ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏ ရေအရင်းအမြစ်များအပေါ် သက်ရောက်မှု

ဧပြီလဟာ ဂျာမနီနိုင်ငံတွင် အမြဲတမ်းလိုလို အစိုစွတ်ဆုံးလ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ဒီနှစ်မှာ ဂျာမနီနိုင်ငံဟာ ပုံမှန်မိုးရေချိန်ရဲ့ ၅% သာ မိုးရေရရှိခဲ့ပြီး၊ နိုင်ငံရဲ့ အရေးပါဆုံး ရေကြောင်းကုန်သွယ်မှုပြုလုပ်ရာ မြစ်ဖြစ်တဲ့ ရိုင်းမြစ်ဟာလည်း ခမ်းခြောက်လုနီးနီး ဖြစ်ခဲ့တယ်။ လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့(၂)နှစ်က အလားသဏ္ဏန်တူတဲ့ မိုးခေါင်တဲ့ကာ...

Toilets talk

23 Nov 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - As a squatter living on around 10 square feet of land,Daw Aye and her family had no space to dig a hole for a latrine. Daw Aye lives in Dala township beside the Yangon river where, aside from toilet problems, residents face regular shortages of clean water....

သဘာဝချိန်ခါ - Time for Nature

ယခုနှစ်၏ သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်နေ့ အထိမ်းအမှတ် ဆောင်ပုဒ်မှာ Time for Nature "သဘာဝချိန်ခါ" ဟူ၍ပင်ဖြစ်သည်။ ငြီးငွေ့ဖွယ်ကောင်းသည့် ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ အသွားအလာ ကန့်သတ်မှုများ ပြေလျော့လာသည့် နည်းတူ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့အားလုံး စိမ်းလန်းစိုပြေသည့် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ကို ခံစားသက်ဝင်လာနိုင်ခဲ့ပြီ ဖြစ်သည်။ ဂျလန်ဟာမြို့ (J...

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