03 April 19 - Source: Eleven Myanmar - More than Ks 300 billion will be spent on roads, bridges, power and water in Yangon Region for the financial years of 2018-2019, according to the budget data of 2018-2019 FY. The budget data of 2018-2019 FY indicated that Ks 157,235.344 million would be spent o...
ေျမေအာက္ေရေအာင္းလြာထဲသို႔ေရငန္တိုး၀င္ျခင္းႏွင့္မဟာရန္ကုန္ - အပိုင္း ၁
စကားဦး။ ရန္ကုန္ျမိ့ဳတြ င္လြတ္လပ္ေရး မရမွီေခတ္ကာလကစ၍ ေျမေအာက္ေ ရကိုသံုးစြဲလာခဲ့သည္မွာ ယေန႔ထိျဖစ္ပါ သည္။ ယေန႔ေခတ္ အခ်ိန္ကာလမ်ားတြင္ မဟာရန္ကုန္၊ တိုးခ်ဲ႔ျမိ့ဳသစ္မ်ားသည္ ေျမေအာက္ေရကို ရာ ႏႈွန္းျပည့္နီး ပါး မွီခိုအားထား ေနရပါသည္။ ဆက္လက္၍ လည္းသံုးစြဲ ေနရဦးမည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ အတြင္း ပင္လယ္ႏွင္ ့...
Efforts to curb illegal bottling of water
27 March 2019 - Source: Myanmar Times - The government will take action against people and businesses bottling water improperly for sales to the public in Yangon, says U Ye Htut Oo, chair of the Myanmar Drinking Water Entrepreneurs Association. It is difficult to control the prices of bottled across...
‘Safe drinking water key to country’s growth’
According to WaterAid, a clean-water non-profit NGO, diarrhea caused by dirty water and poor toilets kills almost 800 children a day around the world. 25 Mar 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) urgently need to be prioritised globally as one third of the global hea...
Country Update Myanmar 2018-12
This Country Update summarizes some recent development in a number of sub-sectors in or are relevant to the water sector in Myanmar. Urban Development Water SupplyWater TechnologyPort Development & Inland WaterwaysAnd in the end, upcoming events in 2019 are shown. For further enquiries, pl...
ေျမေအာက္ေရႏွင့္က်န္းမာေရး၊ (Groundwater & Health) အပိုင္း ၃
က။ ေသာက္သံုးေရအတြက္ စက္ေရတြင္းတူးရန္ ေနရာေရြးခ်ယ္ပါက ေအာက္ပါတို႔ကို အဓိကစဥ္းစားပါရန္။ ၁။ မိလႅာအညစ္အေၾကးစြန္႔ကန္၊ပိုက္လိုင္းမ်ားႏွင့္အနဲဆံုးေပ(၅၀)ကြာေ၀းရန္ ၂။ အသံုးမျပဳသည့္တြင္းႏွင့္အနဲဆုံးေပ(၅၀)ကြာေ၀းရန္ ၃။ ျခံ၀န္းအတြင္းရိွက်င္းအိမ္သာႏွင့္အနဲဆံုးေပ(၅၀)ကြာရန္ ၄။ စြန္ျပစ္ပစၥည္းအမွုိက္ပံုႏွင့္အနဲဆံုးေပ...
ေျမေအာက္ေရႏွင့္ က်န္းမာေရး၊ (Groundwater & Health) အပိုင္း ၂
ေျမေအာက္ေရတြင္ေပ်ာ္၀င္ေနသည့္ဓါတ္ပစၥည္းမ်ား၏စံႏွန္းသတ္မွတ္ခ်က္ႏွင့္က်န္းမာေရးသက္ေရာက္မူ႔မ်ား (Dissolved Chemical Properties, Standard (WHO2011) and Health Impact & Remarks) (အသံုးျပဳသည့္ယူနွစ္ = မီလီဂရမ္ပါလီတာ (mg/l =milligrams/liter, or parts per million (ppm ); Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NT...
On track to meet Yangon’s growing water needs
04 Feb 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - With the hot season not far away, water shortages are set to become a problem again in many parts of Yangon. According to U Myint Zaw Than, Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) deputy head of the Engineering Department for Water and Sanitation, the YCDC suppli...
Drinking water plants inspected in Yangon
30 Jan 19 - Source: Mizzima - The Department of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been carrying out surprise inspections at drinking water plants in four townships of Yangon Region every month, state media reported quoting Dr Min Wun, the head of FDA (Yangon). "The plan is expected to cover the...
Half of water meter fees wasted in Mon, minister says
17 Jan 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - Mawlamyine township in Mon State collected municipal fees on only half the volume of water consumed last year, said U Min Kyaw Lwin, minister of Municipal Affairs for the Mon State government. The 23 districts of Mawlamyine township used 190 billion litres of wate...
Be ready to prevent water-borne diseases in flood-hit areas
27 July 18 - This is peak dengue season, and we need to remain vigilant after floods to prevent the outbreak of mosquito-borne disease.Flooding in some parts of Myanmar has forced local people to move to temporary shelters and makeshift after rising waters inundated low-lying areas.The victims...
Group plans water refill stations nationwide
22 May 18 - The Thant Myanmar group will launch a campaign next month to raise awareness about the environmental damage caused by disposable plastic water bottles by inaugurating water refilling stations nationwide. Myanmar's tradition of storing drinking water in clay pots is threatened by th...
Yangon Residents Oppose $93M Development Plan, Cite Environmental Threats
21 May 18 - Lawmakers and residents opposed the Yangon government's proposed development plan in the city's Mayangone Township, citing that the more than US$93 million project would pose environmental threats to the neighborhood. The Yangon regional government proposed 'Mayangon Villa,' a comme...
YCDC Approves Reservoir Safety Plan for Controversial Mega Project
Source: The Irrawaddy Date: 09 April 2018 YANGON—The city's municipal body has given permission to the developer of a controversial high-rise project to implement its proposed safety measures for a reservoir next to the project site. Yangon City Development Committee gave the green ligh...
Over 2000 households need water in Shan State
Source: The Myanmar Times Date: 12 April 2018 Over 50 villages in three townships in Southern Shan State are suffering from water shortage and appealed for urgent water provisions, according to Shan civil society organisations (CSO). "Water shortages are growing year after year in this region. The ...