18 MAR 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - Mandalay city residents can now pay municipal bills online, such as water and electricity, the Mandalay City Development Committee (MCDC) said. The committee introduced the Mandalay Smart Pay, or MSP Wallet app, in partnership with the government-owned Yad...
Myanmar launches aquaculture roadmap
17 MAR 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - The government has launched a national roadmap for the aquaculture industry to outline the ways it intends to develop the sector and to illustrate the market opportunities and hurdles. The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation launched the Nati...
Water purification taking root
17 MAR 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - As Yangon heats up over the next few weeks, people are looking for ways to cool down and stay hydrated. As technology also improves, the more health-conscious consumers seek out new types of water purifiers to keep our H2O extra fresh. One such water purif...
Ayeyarwady island eyed as Ramsar Site
16 March 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Forest Department wants to upgrade an island in Ayeyarwady Region that is a nesting site for sea turtles from its current status as a protected area to a Ramsar Site. A Ramsar Site is a wetland site designated to be of international importance under the R...
Minimizing water wastage ensures drinking water security of Yangon
15 MAR 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - With a growing number of people and changes in lifestyles, the population density has been gradually high in Yangon. When Yangon becomes a densely populated area, it leads to the limited safe drinking water available for the Yangonites to con...
Under pressure – Sustainable groundwater in Myanmar
Source: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research-Restoring artesian groundwater pressure in Myanmar's Central Dry Zone (CDZ) and developing strategies for its sustainable use is the focus of a new ACIAR-funded project. ACIAR has commissioned the International Water Management Instit...
National Water Resources Committee gets closer to finalizing national water bill
12 March 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Vice President U Henry Van Thio, in his capacity as Chairman of the National Water Resources Committee (NWRC), addressed the committee's first coordination meeting of the year at Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. He first reminded that these meetings aim t...
EIA process for Kyaukphyu port to start
11 MAR 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - Chinese state-owned CITIC is set to initiate bidding for its environmental impact assessment (EIA) consultant for its port project in central Rakhine following the environmental ministry's response to its project proposal. The Ministry of Natural Resources...
A Water Journey of 42 Years - Prof. Dr. Khin Ni Ni Thein
"It began with passion and learning. When I was young, I wanted to be an engineer and then I wanted to teach. Putting these two interests together, I became a university teacher specialized in water resources engineering." This is how Dr. Khin Ni Ni Thein's professional journey with water star...
Mandalay develops app to ease summer water shortage
08 March 20 - Source: Myanmar Times - Mandalay Region has developed a mobile phone application to facilitate the delivery of water to communities with shortages during the summer, the region's Department of Rural Development said. The app can help the government ration water to the 51 villages in 1...
State Counsellor receives delegation from IUCN Regional Hub for Asia-Oceania
05 March 20 - Source: Global New Light Of Myanmar - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, received the delegation led by Ms Aban Marker Kabraji, Regional Director of Asia and Director of IUCN Regional Hub for Asia- Oceania at 10 am on 4 March 2020 at the Min...
University of Yangon collaborating with international experts to establish a new Centre of Excellence on Water Studies
Do you have any idea when you first hear about the water studies? I am sure that you will be willing to know what the water studies is. So, let me introduce the general term of the water studies. "Our State Counselor wants not only a center of excellence of water studies in Myanmar and also she want...
ရာသီဥတုနှင့်ဆက်နွယ်သည့် လုံခြုံရေးစိန်ခေါ်မှုများကို ကိုင်တွယ်ဖြေရှင်းရာတွင် ခံနိုင်ရည်တည်ဆောက်ခြင်း
ရာသီဥတုကြောင့်ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာသော ဘေးအန္တရာယ်များသည် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးနှင့်လုံခြုံရေးအပေါ် မည်သို့သက်ရောက်မှုရှိသနည်း။ ရာသီဥတုနှင့်သက်ဆိုင်သော လုံခြုံရေးအန္တရာယ်များကို လျော့ပါးစေရန်အတွက် ထည့်သွင်းစဉ်းစားရမည့် အရေးကြီးသော အချက်များကားအဘယ်နည်း။ စတော့ဟုမ်းရာသီဥတုလုံခြုံရေးဗဟို မှစီစဉ်သော ပြပွဲတစ်ခုသည် ဤမေးခွန်...
Clarify Your Water with Drumstick Seeds
07 MAR 2020 - Most of the surface water (rivers, lakes, streams, etc.) normally have turbidity to some extent. In Myanmar, people who live near these sources generally use surface water for domestic and even drinking purposes. Instead of using the turbid water directly, clarifying it with some ...
Online Seminar: Open Education for Water Professionals
Date - 05 March 2020 Time - 17:15 - 18:15 (YGN time) How do I attend? Go to https://metameta.adobeconnect.com/ihe/ Click on 'Enter as Guest' Enter a user name Click on 'Enter Room' Participation The events are free of charge. Please register to participate using the following link, that will help us...