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 ...

ရေအတွက် အနာဂတ်လမ်းကြောင်း

UC Berkeley မှ ပါမောက္ခတစ်ဦးလည်းဖြစ်၊ ရေ ၄.၀ (water 4.0) ကို ရေးသားသူလည်းဖြစ်တဲ့ ပါမောက္ခ David Sedlak သည် ရေဘက်ဆိုင်ရာ စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှု အတွက် လာမယ့် အနာဂတ်ရေလမ်းကြောင်းအပေါ်မှာ သူ့ရဲ့ အမြင်ကို ဝေမျှခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ပထမဦးဆုံးကတော့ လူသားတွေဟာ ရေအရင်းအမြစ်များကို ရယူခြင်း၊ သန့်စင်ခြင်း နှင့် ပေးဝေခြင်းများအတွက...

Myanmar Flood Monitoring Dashboard

Source: Myanmar Information Management Unit - The UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) dashboard uses Sentinel-1 radar satellite data to provide projections of likely flood-affected areas using Artificial Intelligence model. Users can select the time period of interest to view Inundated areas...

Yangon Raincraft: Engaging Local Communities for Climate Resilient Neighbourhoods

The city of Yangon is one of the most vulnerable cities worldwide to climate change, suffering from widespread flooding during the monsoon while experiencing severe water shortages in the dry season. Starting in 2019, through a joint initiative of local and international par...

No help from junta as floods sweep southeastern Myanmar

Local aid groups and volunteers say they have led rescue efforts in Mon and Kayin states   28 July 2021 - Source: Myanmar Now - Junta-controlled authorities have offered no help as floods have inundated homes in southeastern Myanmar, leaving at least hundreds without shelter in the Mon State ca...

ကမ္ဘာ့စားနပ်ရိက္ခာထုတ်လုပ်မှု အပေါ် ပြောင်းလဲမှု ဖြစ်ပေါ်စေမည့် ဆားငန်မြေစိုက်ပျိုးရေး

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

ရာသီဥတု ပြောင်းလဲခြင်းအတွက် ရေဘက်ဆိုင်ရာ အဖြေရှာမှု နည်းလမ်း (၃)သွယ်

 ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲခြင်းသည် လူသားတို့ကြုံတွေ့နေရသော အရေးကြီးဆုံး အခန်းကဏ္ဍ များထဲမှ တစ်ခုဖြစ်သည်။ ထိုပြောင်းလဲခြင်းသည် ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ အပူချိန် မြင့်တက်လာမှုနှင့် ရာသီဥတု လွန်ကဲစွာဖောက်ပြန်မှု တိုးပွားခြင်းကို ဖြစ်စေသော အကြောင်းပြချက်သာမက ရေရရှိနိုင်မှုနှင့် ဖြန့်ဝေခြင်းကဲ့သို့သော အဓိကကဏ္ဍများအတ...

480,000 killed by extreme weather this century: analysis

26 Jan 2021 - Source: Mizzima - Almost half a million people have died in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in the last 20 years, according to a new assessment of the direct threat posed to humanity by climate change. The mortality burden of climate-related catastrophes such as...

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...

Join The Webinar "Talks on Hydrology, Climate Change, Dam Safety and Eco-friendly Irrigation"

Brief Information  From this webinar, you can get the information concerned with how to incorporate climate change impact into flood risk assessment; safe inflow design flood selection for dams; climate change considered hydro-meteorological response of particular river basin as well as how to ...

Pyin Oo Lwin braces for worst drought ever

15 Jan 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times Mandalay's Pyin Oo Lwin district is bracing for the worst drought in history, said U Lay Myint Aung, leader of the Sein Lann Pyin Oo Lwin natural environment group. The district has been experiencing reduced rainfall in recent years with 2020 recording only half t...

Public shelter to be set up in Yangon’s Dala

12 January 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times A public shelter will be constructed in Dala township in the Yangon Region with the help of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The project is scheduled for completion within eight months the management of the bank's Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), sa...

Lessons from Bangladesh and Nepal: Role of WUG/A in Flood Management and Drainage - U Tha Peng Cung

"Lessons from Bangladesh and Nepal: Role of WUA/WUG in Flood Management & Drainage" was the last perspective discussed as the finalization of the speakers' discussion time. U Tha Peng Cung, an assistant Engineer from the planning and works branch, IWMUD pointed out his perspective visions and fi...

Community-based Approaches to Flood Management in Myanmar - U Nay Myo Lin

U Nay Myo Lin, working as an assistant director of the design branch, IWUMD subsequently took up the discussion with the topic, "Community-based Approaches to Flood Management in Myanmar". In accordance with the chosen theme, he presented community based disaster management in details including comm...

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