Water Supply Theme - March Report This report aims to present an overview of what is recently happening in water supply in Myanmar, covering the information about key players in the sectors, main investors, events, national and regional news. This report includes - Background of Water Supply in Myan...
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...
Overexploitation of Groundwater and Consequence in Greater Yangon
This presentation is presented by Daw Than Than Soe and written by U Myint Thein, an advisory member of National Water Resources Committee (NWRC) during World Water Day 2019 in Nay Pyi Taw. The presentation pointed out - (1) In Yangon, There are no outstanding of Marine Clay especially in city down...
Overexploitation Of Groundwater And Consequence In Yangon (Myanmar) And Bangkok (Thailand)
Current status of Groundwater in greater Yangon compare to Bangkok: Bangkok is more 40 years advance in groundwater management than Yangon. Be aware of Groundwater in Myanmar Myint Thein, Consultant (Groundwater & Wells) Advisory Group Member (Groundwater) NWRC, Myanmar myint.th...
Water Resources Myanmar
This book is the outcome of filed and management experiences and expertise in water resources (both surface water and groundwater) by the author and professional association and Government Departments over 20 years. The eight chapters in this book seriously deal with origin, occurrences, topography...
မမြင်နိုင်သည်ကို မြင်အောင်ကြည့်ခြင်း – ဥတုပြောင်းလဲခြင်း၏ ငန်သောအရသာ
ဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှုကြောင့် ရေငန်ဝင်ရောက်ခြင်းသည် ဧရာဝတီမြစ်ဝှမ်းအောက်ပိုင်းနှင့် ကမ်းရိုးတန်းဒေသများရှိ ဒေသခံတိုင်းရင်းသားလယ်သမားများ၏ ဘဝကို ဆိုးရွားစွာသက်ရောက်မှုရှိပြီး ပြောင်းရွှေ့အခြေချခြင်းနှင့် လယ်ယာစိုက်ပျိုးရေးအလုပ်ကို ကျောခိုင်းစွန့်ခွာရသော လယ်သမားအရေအတွက် များပြားလာစေသည်။ By KYAW NYUNT LIN...
မျမင္ႏုိင္ေသာေျမေအာက္ေရကိုျမင္ရသကဲ့သို႔စနစ္တက်သံုးစြဲ၊ ထိမ္းသိမ္း၊ ကာကြယ္ေရး (Use, Protect and Save invisible Groundwater make visible)
ေျမေအာက္ေရေန႔ကိုႏွစ္စဥ္ႏွစ္တိုင္း၊စက္တင္ဘာလ(၃)ရက္ေန႔တြင္ေျမေအာက္ေရကိုတန္ဘိုးထား၊အဓိထားသံုးစြဲေနသည့္ႏွိင္ငံမ်ားမွာေျမေအာက္ေရဆိုင္ရာအစိုးရဌာနမ်ား၊အဖြဲ႔အစီးမ်ားကဦးေဆာင္ျပီးသံုးစြဲသူမ်ားႏွင့္အတူေျမေအာက္ေရဆိုင္ရာလူမူ႔ေရးရာႏွင့္ပညာေပးေဆာင္ရြက္လုပ္ရွားမူ႔မ်ားကိုက်င္းပၾကသည္။အဲဒီေန႔မွာေျမေအာက္ေရကိုအေလးထားထု...
Some cities around the world are sinking
By Khin Maung Myint 11 Aug 19 - Source: Global New Light Of Myanmar - During our younger days, we knew of only one city that was inundated the whole year round. The thoroughfares are a network of canals instead of paved roads. At school, when we first came to learn about that city, we were astonishe...
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...
ေျမေအာက္ေရေအာင္းလြာထဲသို႔ေရငန္တိုး၀င္ျခင္းႏွင့္မဟာရန္ကုန္ - အပိုင္း ၃
ေရခ်ိဳ၊ေရငန္ အမ်ိဳးအစား၊အဆင့္ခြဲျခားျခင္း (Grading of Fresh water Salt water) ေရခိ်ဳေရငန္အမိ်ဳးအစားမ်ားကို ဇလဘူမိေဗဒဆိုင္ရာနည္းပညာမ်ားအရ၊ေရတြင္ေပ်ာ္၀င္ေနေသာဓါတ္ပစၥည္း(ဓါတ္ဆား)စုစုေပါင္းေပ်ာ္၀င္မွဳ့ပမာဏ (Total Dissolved Solid / TDS) ဆားဓါတ္ပါ၀င္မွဳ့အနဲအမ်ား ႏွင့္ကလိုရုိက္ေပ်ာ္၀င္မွဳ့အနဲအမ်ားအလိုက္(၄)...
Law drafted to save underground water
Source: Myanmar Times Date: 6 April 2018 A Law for the conservation of Myanmar's underground water resources has been drafted and is hoped to be enacted in the near future, said U Ba Shwe, an adviser to the Ministry of Construction and the National Water Resources Committee. "We have bee...
Underground water to be used as reserve from 2025
12 June 18 - The Yangon population will have to reduce its use of underground water from 2025, as thereafter, such water will be used only as a reserve for emergencies, according to the advisory team of the National Water Resources Committee (NWRC). The members of NWRC revealed this during a t...
The Ayeyarwady State of the Basin Assessment (SOBA)
6 July 2018 (Updated) - The Ayeyarwady State of the Basin Assessment (SOBA) is one of the major knowledge outputs of the Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management (AIRBM) Project prepared by Hydro-Informatics Centre (HIC). SOBA is an integrated environmental, social and economic analys...
Mandalay's WaterWorx focused on Regeneration of Tube Wells
An agreement between MCDC and Vitens Evides International (VEI) was already signed in December 2017, in July and September the first visits of dutch experts took place, and from the end of October a project manager will be working and living in Mandalay for the 3 year duration of the project. W...
Danish company seeks long-term role in Myanmar’s water security
4 August 18 - While issues like aquifer depletion, groundwater contamination, overpopulation, extreme flooding and droughts grab headlines in coverage of a global water crisis that has been long in the making, one area that gets significantly less attention is water that is lost before it reac...