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...
Irrigated Agriculture and Groundwater
Source: International Association of Hydrogeologists What is the socioeconomic context of irrigation? IAH has just released another title in our Strategic Overview Series (IAH/AIH SOS) which summarises the development of irrigated agriculture, discusses how it has produced great economic b...
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...
Internship Opportunities: Expand Your Knowledge in Integrated Water Resources Management
Source: Think Maritime Engineering Consultancy Application Deadline: 20 March 2020 (Sunday) 12:00 AM, MM Time Vacant: 15 Posts Are you interested in Climate Change Adaptation in Ports and Urban Areas? Do you want to expand your knowledge in Integrated Water Resource Management? We are happy to annou...
7 important conclusions from World Water Week
28 Aug 2021 - Source: Stockholm International Water Institute - All over the world, people have been shocked by unprecedented floods, droughts, and heatwaves, hard on the heels of COVID-19. By now it should be clear to everyone that we need to build resilience faster. World Water Week 2021 offe...
Asian Water Development Outlook 2020
The Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO) 2020 shares the current water security status in Asia and the Pacific, including main findings and recommendations on water governance and finance as well as application of the AWDO framework in policy development and water management. According to AWDO 202...
A Guide to Managing Water for the Environment
This guide presents six elements that can be helpful when establishing or reforming a policy framework for managing water for the environment in any jurisdiction, based on learnings from the experience of Australia and other countries: Confirm a vision for water management and the value of wat...
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...
Water info-sharing platform launched for Mekong nations
01 Dec 2020 - Source: Ecns - China launched an online information-sharing platform on water resources in Beijing on Monday as part of its efforts to help Mekong River countries address the challenges of climate change. The opening of the website comes as the Lancang-Mekong River Basin faces esc...
Representatives of Mekong River countries hail cooperation amid pandemic
30 Nov 2020 - Source: Global Times - Representatives from Mekong River countries applauded achievements brought by the Lancang-Mekong River cooperation mechanism over the past four years, calling it the most vibrant case of establishing a community with a shared future for humanity at the 2020 ...
Success despite Covid: hope from a water users association in Central Myanmar
26 Nov 2020 - Source: International Water Management Institute - By Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Petra Schmitter and Nyan Thiha "Since last year, we had enough water and vegetables to procure a good income as long as I get water, so I will continue this year again." - By a farmer, May 2020. Th...
BasinGuide: A guide to river basin planning
The Australian Water Partnership has published BasinGuide: A Guide to River Basin Planning to help practitioners address the challenge of water security and unsustainable river management, and further the ambitions of many Indo-Pacific countries to improve their river basin management and cooperatio...
Is Our Inle Lake Healthy? - Thoughts of Inle lake ecosystem
In this article, you will find out the current situations of Inle lake ecosystem and its environmental challenges, and why Inle lake is needed to be saved. Back in August, I was volunteering as a language teacher in a village called Le Pyin Taung which is near the Inle lake and luckily I have got a ...