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...
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...
Groundwater-based water supply publication report
Global demand for water is projected to outstrip supply by 40 % in 2030. Groundwater can be a sustainable source of high-quality drinking water. Especially in a time where climate change, water scarcity, and droughts are frequent and increasing. Whether relying on a groundwater supply entirely, or a...
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...
UN World Water Development Report 2022
Source: UN Water - Groundwater: Making the invisible visible Accounting for approximately 99% of all liquid freshwater on Earth, groundwater has the potential to provide societies with tremendous social, economic and environmental benefits and opportunities. Groundwater already provides ha...
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၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ် ကမ္ဘာ့ရေနေ့ _ ပုန်းကွယ်နေသောမြေအောက်ရေကို ပိုမိုမြင်သာလာစေမည့် နည်းလမ်း (၇) သွယ်
"မမြင်နိုင်သော မြေအောက်ရေ ကို မြင်နိုင်အာင် ပြုလုပ်ခြင်း" ဆိုသည်မှာ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ် ကမ္ဘာ့ရေနေ့အတွက် ဆောင်ပုဒ်ဖြစ်သည်။ မြေအောက်ရေ ကို ပိုမိုမြင်သာလာနိုင်စေရန် လုပ်ဆောင်ပေးနိုင်မည့် နည်းလမ်း ၇ ချက်ကို SIWI(Stockholm International Water Institute) မှ Dr Jenny Gronwall က အောက်ပါအတိုင်း ဆွေးနွေးတင်ပြပေ...
Sustainable groundwater management in Denmark
Groundwater resources globally provide about 50% of all drinking water, about 40% of water used for irrigated agriculture, and about 30% of the water supply required for industry, as well as sustaining aquatic ecosystems, maintaining river baseflows and preventing land subsidence and seawater intrus...
Launch of UN World Water Development Report and commemoration of World Water Day
The UN World Water Development Report 2022 "Groundwater – making the invisible visible" will be launched on 21 March 2022 at the opening ceremony of the 9th World Water Forum in Dakar, Senegal. The following day is World Water Day, 22 March 2022. In commemoration, a 'pivot' event will be attended by...
"မြေအောက်ရေကို တာ၀န်ရှိ အစိုးရက ကာကွယ်နိုင်တဲ့ နည်းလမ်း ၅ ခု"
မြေအောက်ရေသည် ကမ္ဘာပေါ်တွင် အပေါများဆုံး ရေချိုအရင်းအမြစ်ဖြစ်ပြီး ရေလွှမ်းမိုးမှုနှင့် မိုးခေါင်မှုကဲ့သို့သော ရေကြီးရေလျှံမှုများ၏ အရေးပါသော ထိန်းချုပ်မှုတစ်ခုဖြစ်သည်။ သို့သော် ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏အမြင်၌ ထိုအချက်က ပျောက်ကွယ်ဝှက်နေသောကြောင့်ကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည် အနည်းငယ်မျှ ဂရုပြုကြပါသည်။ တကယ်တော့ အဲဒါကို သတိမထား...
“မမြင်နိုင်သော” မြေအောက်ရေကို “မြင်နိုင်အောင်“ ပြုလုပ်ခြင်း (GROUNDWATER - MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE)
"GROUNDWATER - MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE" Groundwater is invisible, but its impact is visible everywhere "မမြင်နိုင်သော" မြေအောက်ရေကို "မြင်နိုင်အောင်" ပြုလုပ်ခြင်း။ မမြင်ရသောမြေအောက်ရေသည်မြင်ရသည့်နေရာတိုင်းမှာ အကျိုးသက်ရောက်စေ၏။ ကမ္ဘာ့ရေနေ့နှင့်မြေအောက်ရေ ။ ။ ကု...
Webinar Announcement: Groundwater: protecting tomorrow’s resources
Source: IWA - International Water Association & IWA Specialist Group "Groundwater Management" will be hosting a webinar on Groundwater Day 22 March 2022 at 14:00 GMT Time. Target Audience: Water practitioners, water utility managers and operators, regulators, policymakers, and wat...
Over-extraction of Groundwater reacts to water level declination toward Yangon sinking
CASE STUDY: Over-exploration of Groundwater reacts to water level declination, Building settlement, and Ground Elevation lower in Thamine, Mayangon TS in Yangon. Myint Thein, Groundwater and Wells Consultant Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. January 2022 1. Object Firstly, the realistic bu...
Yangon’s wells, reservoirs and lakes hit an all-time low
15 January 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times It has been nearly two months since the rain last fell over Yangon. Though many clouds have passed over the city, no precipitation has fallen from the sky. This is normal for Yangon, meteorologically-speaking. On average it rains for just over 4 days in N...
Yangon Groundwater Outlook 2020 Presentation
These are the presentation file and the abstract file presented by U Myint Thein, a groundwater & wells consultant, at Yangon Groundwater Outlook 2020. Download PDF File Here Download PDF File Here
The Phantom Menace in Yangon: Land Subsidence
Whenever most of the citizens in Yangon, especially those who live in an apartment, experience water shortage in their neighborhood, extracting groundwater is the first solution that comes to their minds. Of course, we know that water supply in Yangon is still inadequate to some parts of Yangon. Tha...