Source: stormwater.wef.orgLeveraging the technology behind its existing suite of satellite imagery products and its expertise in artificial intelligence, search-engine giant Google (Mountain View, California) is pursuing new ways to help people protect life and property in the event of major floods....
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...
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...
Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan (2018 – 2030)
The Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan (MSDP) is the expression of our national development vision – a vision that finds resonance in the global sustainable development agenda.Genuine development will only come to Myanmar if, and only if, all these plans move harmoniously and cohere...
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...
Why inclusive practices are important in water climate adaptation
Social inclusion is utterly important in water climate adaptation. As technical approaches are still dominant in development projects, the locals live in the vicinity are often limited to include their knowledge and experience in tackling climate issues. True value of technical knowledge and experti...
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...
Integrated Flood Resilience Strategy for Yangon City 2021-2040
Background Myanmar's city of Yangon is the largest financial and commercial centre. It accounts for about 50% of the country's industrial capacity, and is the seat of education, art, culture, healthcare, tourism, research and development. Population growth and rapid urbanisation ...
ရှေ့သို့ ခရီးရောက်တိုးတက်သော မိတ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများဖြစ်ရေး နည်းဥပဒေသများ
တစ်ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ သဘောတူညီထားတဲ့ ရေရှည်တည်တံ့သော ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး ရည်မှန်းချက် (Sustainable Development Goals) ကို အခုလက်ရှိအချိန်ကနေ ၂၀၃၀ ခုနှစ် အတွင်း ကျွန်တော်တို့ စွမ်းဆောင်အောင်မြင်နိုင်ဖို့ဆိုရင် လူပေါင်း သန်းတစ်ဝက်နီးပါးကို အန္တရာယ်ကင်း စိတ်ချရတဲ့ သောက်ရေရရှိအောင်၊ လူပေါင်းတစ်သန်းကိ...
Myanmar’s New Government Needs to Address Failures on the Environment and Public Health Over the Past Five Years
09 December 2020 - Source: The Irrawaddy As the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) works to select the right candidates for the new government's cabinet after winning another landslide election, it will be interesting to see how the new administration will tackle critical environmental issue...
Yangon ports now able to receive bigger ships
02 December 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times 2020 will be the year Yangon River accommodates the largest vessels in its history in terms of size and draft as a result of improved waterways in the river, said Win Myint Aung, Deputy Director-General of the Myanmar Port Authority (MPA). "This year will be ...
Myanmar’s development assistance policy (DAP) seeks support for the Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan
29 November 2020 - Source: Mizzima Myanmar's democratic transition process and opening up of the economy coincided with the increased presence of development partners. Apart from private sector-led development, reliance on external assistance in the form of grants, concessional loans from bilateral ...
A glimpse into Myanmar water governance, 2020 – Interview with Thurein Maung Maung
All the water sector stakeholders need to be freed of bias, transcend our interest, and work together to give our country the best possible services. by Thurein Maung Maung, a water and sanitation professional Over 19 years of working experience in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eu...
Myanmar launches aid policy to align with MSDP
18th November 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times Myanmar's new development assistance policy has been announced by the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations. The Myanmar Development Assistance Policy 2020 aims to develop a specific set of policies to make effective use of development assis...
နိုင်ငံတကာရေကြောင်းကုန်သွယ်မှု၏ ၉၀ ရာခိုင်နှုန်းကျော်ရှိ ရန်ကုန်ဆိပ်ကမ်း၌ လေးနှစ်တာအတွင်း အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာရေယာဉ်ကြီးများ ဆိုက်ကပ်နိုင်သည့် ဆိပ်ခံတံတား ကိုးစင်း တည်ဆောက်ပြီးစီးခဲ့ပြီး ဆိပ်ခံတံတား ၄၂ စင်းအထိရှိလာ
16th November 2020 - Source: Eleven Media Group Co.,Ltd. နိုင်ငံတကာရေကြောင်းကုန်သွယ်မှု၏ ၉၀ ရာခိုင်နှုန်းကျော်ရှိ ရန်ကုန်ဆိပ်ကမ်း၏ ရန်ကုန်ဧရိယာနှင့် သီလဝါဧရိယာတို့တွင် လေးနှစ်တာအတွင်း အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ ရေယာဉ်ကြီးများဆိုက်ကပ်နိုင်သည့် ဆိပ်ခံတံတား ကိုးစင်း တည်ဆောက်ပြီးစီးခဲ့ပြီး ဆိပ်ခံတံတား ၄၂ စင်းအထိရ...