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...

10 Interesting Facts About Water Scarcity

Source: Healing Waters InternationalClean and fresh water isn't a privilege—it's a necessity. Although water covers a large portion of our planet, most of that water isn't fit for human consumption. According to the World Wildlife Federation, only three percent of all earth's water comes from freshw...

Irrigated Agriculture and Groundwater

Source: International Association of Hydrogeologists What is the socioeconomic context of irrigation? IAH has just released another title in our Strategic Overview Series (IAH/AIH SOS) which summarises the development of irrigated agriculture, discusses how it has produced great economic b...

Water in Agriculture – why should we care?

Source: WorldWaterWeek - By Cindy Cherry - In the wake of World Food Day, this article places specific focus on the theme of water in agriculture. It highlights the main inhibitors and opportunities to progress water-food-nutrition security by providing reflections from the SIWI WWW semina...

New FAO guidelines on calculating agriculture water use efficiency

Source - UN Water - A new publication, "Guidelines for the calculation of the agriculture water use efficiency for global reporting", by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is now available. These guidelines are intended to assist countries in understanding and com...

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Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) Training

On the 28th of June, Stockholm Environment Institute Asia Center (SEI Asia) hosted and organized an online training on Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP) with funding support of the Swedish Government through SEI Rapid Response Fund.  WEAP is a tool designed for integrated water resour...

“မမြင်နိုင်သော” မြေအောက်ရေကို “မြင်နိုင်အောင်“ ပြုလုပ်ခြင်း (GROUNDWATER - MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE)

"GROUNDWATER - MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE" Groundwater is invisible, but its impact is visible everywhere "မမြင်နိုင်သော" မြေအောက်ရေကို "မြင်နိုင်အောင်" ပြုလုပ်ခြင်း။ မမြင်ရသောမြေအောက်ရေသည်မြင်ရသည့်နေရာတိုင်းမှာ အကျိုးသက်ရောက်စေ၏။ ကမ္ဘာ့ရေနေ့နှင့်မြေအောက်ရေ ။     ။ ကု...

Online Course: Change in water-use efficiency over time

Source: FAO elearning Academy - The course provides guidance on the rationale and the main characteristics of Indicator 6.4.1, and on how to compute the two dimensions constituting the indicator: the hydrologic and the economic component. It also highlights possible challenges related to d...

Call for Application_Solutions Search: Meaningful Youth Engagement in ADB's Greater Mekong Subregion Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Program

Description: This is an open call for the Solutions Search: Meaningful Youth Engagement in ADB's Greater Mekong Subregion Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Program (GMS SAFSP). This contest is a solution-sharing platform for youth in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Through the form ...

ကမ္ဘာ့စားနပ်ရိက္ခာထုတ်လုပ်မှု အပေါ် ပြောင်းလဲမှု ဖြစ်ပေါ်စေမည့် ဆားငန်မြေစိုက်ပျိုးရေး

ပင်လယ်ရေမျက်နှာပြင်မြင့်တက်လာမှု နှင့် ခြောက်သွေ့ကာလများ ပိုမိုရှည်ကြာလာမှုများသည် ကမ်းရိုးတန်းဒေသများရှိ ကမ္ဘာ့ရေချိုအရင်းအမြစ်များအပေါ် ခြိမ်းခြောက်လျှက်ရှိနေပြီး အကျိုးဆက်အနေဖြင့် ၎င်းသည် မြေဆီလွှာတွင် ဆားဓာတ်ပါဝင်မှုကို တိုးလာစေခြင်းကြောင့် ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ စားနပ်ရိက္ခာထုတ်လုပ်မှုအပေါ် ခြိမ်းခြေ...

Mapping Myanmar’s water resources is key to developing sustainable aquaculture and improving nutrition

19 April 2021 - Source: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - Many people in Myanmar suffer from poor nutrition because they eat too many carbohydrates – primarily rice – and too little protein. One way to overcome poor nutrition is to expand small-scale aquaculture by increasing th...

58 Mandalay villages likely to experience water shortage

29 JAN 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times - Up to 58 villages in Mandalay Region is likely to experience water shortage in the coming summer months, said Region Rural Area Development Department's Director U Soe Than. The 58 villages will cover 10 townships including Taungtha and Nwartogyi townships,...

Lesser rainfall causes reduction of irrigation water in Ngwe Taung Dam

26 Jan 2021 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Nan San Hpoo natural water outlet, a water source of the Ngwe Taung Dam, Dimawhso Township, Kayah State, had a declining water yield, and the area had low rainfalls in the raining season, so this year, the dam will be able to supply water for ...

Underground Transfer of Floods for Irrigation (UTFI): Exploring Potential at the Global Scale

This report presents a spatial analysis conducted at global scale to identify areas of high suitability for implementing the Underground Transfer of Floods for Irrigation (UTFI) approach. The study used multiple global spatial datasets, and the related data were arranged under three categories – wat...

AFFM to open agricultural research and training centre in Hlegu

24 JAN 2021 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Agriculture and Farmer Federation of Myanmar-AFFM will open a research and training centre aiming to promote modern farming technology development in the agricultural sector. Upon completion, the training centre will carry out various activiti...

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