RecyGlo cleans up in recycling

11 March 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - Coloured waste bins line the walls of RecyGlo's office in Yangon. Blue is for paper, red for plastic, green for aluminium and black for general waste. The waste is being separated for recycling. "If the plastic, glass and cans that we discard daily are not syste...

“Saving the Chindwin” Campaign aims to increase public awareness

​​Date ​17th February, 2019 (Sunday) ​Starting Point ​Front of CRBO office, Monywa, Sagaing Region ​Campaign Area​Around CRBO office (nearby City Hall), Kyauk-Saung Jetty and Shipping area​Participants​Hon. Chief Minister Dr. Myint Naing of the Sagaing Regional Government, and other Ministers and Of...

Biodiversity, people’s livelihoods at risk in Chindwin River Basin

26 Feb 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Chindwin River, the largest tributary of the Ayeyarwady River, is vital to the lives of thousands of communities in Myanmar. Its basin ecosystem offers ecological services and biological diversity that provide the essential needs for six million people, from d...

Making schools safe havens for communities

Source: Frontier Myanmar New school construction guidelines are aimed at making education more inclusive and accessible while also ensuring that schools can serve their communities as safe and secure shelters during natural disasters. By EVA HIRSCHI | FRONTIER In 2008, Cyclone Nargis destroyed 50 pe...

​Water project offers hope to farmers in Myanmar's central dry zone

23 Aug 18 - Mizzima -  Taking shelter from the midday heat in a bamboo hut among the paddies and pulses of Myanmar's central Dry Zone, it is easy to drift back in time and imagine what life must have been like in the Kingdom of Pagan 1,000 years earlier. Then the farmer who has invite...

Seminar for dissemination of the Bago River Sub-basin Management Plan

On the 20thof September, 2018, a seminar on the Bago Sub-basin Management Plan will be hosted in Bago. The aim of the open seminar is to present the Bago Sub-basin Management Plan by dissemination of a folder and a report. The Plan, which consists of an overview of the ecological status in the Sub-b...

Integrated Water Resources Management “Learning by Doing” at Meikhtila Lake

​Interview with Luuk Brinkman, Project Manager at Royal HaskoningDHV For a long time, in a lullaby song, Meikhtila Lake was given its worthy tribute by authors in different periods of Myanmar literary history in all forms of prose, verse and drama. Meikhtila Lake was highlighted as The Lake Filled w...

Volunteers clean Botahtaung Jetty to protect river ecosystem

Source: The Myanmar Times Date: 26 February 2018 ​The Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) led a clean-up of Botahtaung Jetty on Friday to protect the Yangon River ecosystem. The primary aim of the project was to create public awareness about river sustainability as Yangon port and rivers become...

Pilot project to irrigate Myanmar’s dry zone

​14 Aug 18 - Farmers living in the central dry zone will no longer have to fight for water thanks to a pilot project funded by Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund (LIFT), International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and other partners, officials said. Mya Than, assistant director and ch...

The River Basin Management Approach - A Pilot in the Bago River Sub-basin Area

​The Bago River Sub-basin Management Plan was presented on 20 September, 2018. On behalf of NIVA, the Norwegian Institute for Water  Research, Ingrid Nesheim presented on how the project came into existence. The Bago River Sub-basin Management Plan brings...

UNDP, Norway boost conservation of Inle Lake

​6 Nov 18 - Source: Myanmar Times - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the government of Norway have joined in efforts to save one of the most scenic lakes in the country, Inle Lake in Shan State. The lake, which is one of the favourite tourist destinations in the country is ex...

The company that works to serve the people

20 Nov 18 - Source: Myanmar Times - Villagers usually start their day early, doing their household chores and attending to their farms before the sun gets too hot. But one Monday, residents of Tha Pyay Kone Village in Hmawbi township in the outskirt of Yangon were exceptionally busy. It wa...

Changing the game of Collaboration and Transparency in Myanmar Water Sector

The Water Agency  was honored to soft launch the first version of the Myanmar Water Portal (MWP) during the Greater Mekong Forum in Yangon in October 2017. Based on the continuous interactions with Myanmar and International stakeholders, we have improved our knowledge and collabo...

Dutch Water Sector Meeting on Myanmar in the Netherlands

On 4 September 2018, the Netherlands Water Partnership organized a meeting with the Dutch Water Sector in The Hague (the Netherlands) on the recent development of the sector in Myanmar in the framework of the program Partners for Water. The meeting attracted the participation of more than 30 or...

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