Rice Environment Suitability Maps for the Ayeyarwady Region (Ayeyarwady Delta)

Acknowledgements These maps were developed by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) for the Department of Agriculture (DoA). This process was financed by the European Union through International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD): Africa to Asia - Testing Adaptation in Flood-base...

ရန်ကုန်မြို့ရှိ မိုးရေစုဆောင်းသော ပုရွက်ဆိတ်များ

"မိုးရေကိုကြိုစုထားမယ်ဆိုရင် ရာသီဥတုပူတဲ့နွေရာသီရောက်ရင် ရေပြတ်မှာ စိတ်မပူရတော့ဘူးပေါ့"  ရန်ကုန်မြို့သာကေတမြို့နယ်တွင်နေထိုင်သော အသက်၇၇နှစ်အရွယ်ရှိ ဒေါ်ခင်အေးကြူ ဆောင်းတွင်းအတွက် အစားအစာတွေကိုကြိုးကြိုးစားစား ကြိုတင်စုဆောင်းနေတဲ့ ပုရွက်ဆိတ်လေးအကြောင်းကို ပြောပြထားတဲ့ "ပုရွက်ဆိတ်နှင့် နှံကောင်" ...

New approach to discharge groundwater in Myanmar and Design & construction of Radial Collector Well in Myanmar

New approach to discharge groundwater in Myanmar with climate change   Writer: Myint Thein [National Literary Award Writer (Apply Science)]1. Global climate changes started since last three decades. Seasonally weather forecasting is changing. It is quite different year by year. Heavy rain in a ...

Mandalay braces for Ayeyarwady River flooding

28 July 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Ayeyarwady River in Mandalay Region could overflow in the next two days, as it reached the height of 12.33 metres on July 26, said the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology. The department said the river is rising about one centimetre per hour and is...

Myanmar: Mandalay Floods - Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) (DREF MDRMM015)

Source IFRC (reliefweb) Originally published 27 Jul 2020 A. Situation analysis Description of the disaster A total of 4,000 households of 20,000 people in Mandalay are affected by the rapid onset flood that was caused by a broken geological sedimentary dike1 on 19 July 2020. Mandalay is an administr...

ဖွံ့ဖြိုးဆဲကမ္ဘာဆီသို့ ရေနှင့်သက်ဆိုင်သော သုတေသနနှင့် ပညာရေးများ စီးမျောရန်လိုအပ်

ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ ရေအကျပ်အတည်းနှင့် သက်ဆိုင်သည့် အလယ်တန်းလွန်ပညာရေးသည် အများဆုံးလိုအပ်လျက်ရှိသော ဖွံ့ဖြိုးဆဲဆင်းရဲသောနိုင်ငံများထက် ချမ်းသာသောနိုင်ငံများတွင်သာ အဓိကအာရုံစိုက်ခြင်းခံရသည်။ ဤကဲ့သို့အ‌‌ခြေအနေတွင် ရေနှင့်ဆိုင်သောသုတေသနများသည် အမှန်တကယ်အောင်မြင်၍ လက်တွေ့ကျသောဖြေရှင်းနည်းများဆီသို့ ဦးတ...

Myanmar Parliament Approves $180-Million ADB Loan Request for Yangon Water Supply

27 July 2020 - Source: The Irrawaddy - NAYPYITAW—The Union Parliament on Friday approved a plan to seek US$180 million (243.7 billion kyats) in funding from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the Yangon City Water Resilience Project, which aims to strengthen the security of Yangon City's wate...

Monsoon flooding in Myanmar forces over 25,000 people to flee their homes

27 July 2020 - Source: Mizzima - Monsoon flooding forced over 25,000 people to leave their homes in Myanmar's regions and states, an official of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement told Xinhua on Saturday. "As of Thursday, there are only 78 shelters left, accommodating over ...

Solving water scarcity making good use of the available structures and conditions in central dry zone of Myanmar

"If the reservoir harvests rainwater to its full capacity, it can supply water not only to Kula village but also to the neighboring villages" by U Maung Maung Oo, a lead advocate of Natural Green Alliance (N.G.A)  24 July 2020 - Local knowledge is the main asset that can contribu...

အချက်အလက်ပြရုပ်ပုံ - ရေရှည် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှု အတွက်‌‌ မြေအောက်ရေ၏ အရေးပါမှု

"ရေရှည် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှု အတွက်‌‌ မြေအောက်ရေ၏ အရေးပါမှု" အချက်အလက်ပြရုပ်ပုံကားချပ်သည် the Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP) မှ ပါ၀င်သော အဖွဲ့အစည်းများမှ အချက်အလက်များကို ကူညီထားပါတယ်။ ၁၉၅၀ ခုနှစ်က တစ်ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ မြေအောက်ရေ အလွန်အကျွံ ထုတ်ယူသုံးစွဲမှု အဖြစ်က...

Water from Ayeyawady embankment collapse in Amarapura under control, over 13,400 affected by flood

22 July 2020 - Source: Eleven Media Group - Although the floods caused by the broken embankment on the bank of the Ayeyawady River near Shwege Sewage Pumping Station in Amarapura Township, Mandalay Region, is now under control, the number of affected local people has reached over 13,400. A leak...

Vice President U Henry Van Thio inspects renovation of embankment and strand road in Amarapura

22 July 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Vice President U Henry Van Thio, in his capacity as the Chairman of the National Disaster Management Committee, inspected the control of Ayeyawady River flood- waters caused by damages to the embankment near Shwe Gae wastewater treatment facility ...

Chin State Minister inspects construction works at Lower Laivar Dam

21 July 2020 - Global New Light of Myanmar - The Chin State Minister for Agriculture, Livestock Breeding, Forestry and Mines U Mang Hen inspected construction works at Lower Laivar Dam, the third dam in the Chin State, on 19 July afternoon. Firstly, U Toe Myint, the dam construction group offic...

Myanmar Conservationists Slam Moves for Endangered Irrawaddy Dolphin’s Captive Breeding

17 July 2020 - The Irrawaddy - Myanmar's approval of the gravely endangered Irrawaddy dolphin for captive commercial breeding has prompted condemnation from wildlife conservationists. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Conservation's Forestry Department ordered last month that 90...

Bagan-NyaungU Bu Phaya river port revived with motorboat riders

16 July 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - With the pilgrims visiting Bu Phaya in the Bagan-NyaungU archaeological heritage site, the Bu pagoda port fallen silent for over three months is now revived with the motorboat riders, said U Maung Soe, a motorboat owner in Bu Phaya river port...

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