U Aung Naing Soe who is working as an assistant engineer in design branch, IWUMD also delivered noteworthy information about "Water Sensitive Design and Role of some Water Sensitive Tools for Flood Control in Urban Areas" from the environmental perspective. The functions and capabilities of applicab...
Flood Mitigation in Yangon using Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) - Dr. Yee Mon Thu
The title, "Flood Mitigation in Yangon Using Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS)" was introduced and presented by Dr.Yee Mon Thu, Director and water resources specialist at Water Bridge Myanmar Co., Ltd. She focused on the four elements which accounted in the designing of sustainable urban dra...
Information on RiskCare Mobile Application - U Kyaw Zeyar Tint
U Kyaw Zeyar Tint, an assistant Engineer of the design branch, IWUMD shared information on RiskCare mobile application which is being still designed for the purposes of sharing flood information and warning alert for the incoming natural disaster went well according to the contents. The importance o...
Importance of Early Warning System in Flood Management - Dr Shelly Win
The "Early Warning System" was discussed by Dr Shelly Win, a national DRM-EWS specialist of Fish Adapt project, FAO. Dr Shelly Win pointed out what early warning system is and a brief explanation of the components of the system. Her discussion went into the clear interpretation of the system by revi...
Flood Fighting in Upper Ayeyarwady Delta - U Tin Myint Aung
"Flood Fighting in Upper Ayeyarwady Delta" which is the prominent subject of flooding management community in Myanmar was presented by U Tin Myint Aung who is an assistant engineer from the branch of operation and maintenance IWUMD. He explained the processes and procedures which have to be car...
Flood and Disaster Prevention in the Coast of Myanmar - Dr Toe Aung
Dr Toe Aung, Deputy Director of Watershed Management Division, Mangroves and Coastal Resources Conservation Session, Forest Department shared the current operations and performance of Myanmar with the intention of preventing flood and disaster in the coast of Myanmar. He presented mainly under the s...
Engaging Webinar on Flood Management from Various Perspectives
Written by Thidar Maung Maung | Myanmar Water Portal With the collaboration of Myanmar Water Partnership (MMWP), Irrigation and Water Utilization Management Development (IWUMD), Global Water Partnership and The Water Agency, the virtual webinar was successfully organized to promote and strength...
Join The Webinar "Flood Management from Various Perspectives"
Brief Information The objectives of the webinar are to strengthen the knowledge and awareness of flood management from various perspectives to the participants and to establish a network for the exchange of information related to this webinar's theme. Date - 3 January 2021 (Sunday) Time ...
Mangroves planted on 18 hectares in Kawhmu by AFoCO
22 December 2020 - Source: Global New Light Of Myanmar - With the financial assistance from SK Innovation, Asian Forest Cooperation Organization (AFoCO) and Korea Association for UN Environment, planted about 45,000 mangroves in an area in Letkokkon, Kawhmu Township, recently. Volunteers including l...
ရေကိုမျှမျှတတရရှိအသုံးပြုနိုင်ခြင်းသည် အဘယ်ကြောင့် အရေးကြီးကြောင်းနှင့် အမြန်ဆုံး အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်ရွက်ရန် လိုအပ်နေပြီဖြစ်ကြောင်း ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ က သက်သေပြ
သန့်ရှင်းသောရေကို ရရှိအသုံးပြုနိုင်ခြင်းသည် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးတစ်ရပ်ဖြစ်သည်နှင့်အညီ ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ ကျန်းမာရေးအတွက် တစ်ကမ္ဘာလုံးအတိုင်းအတာဖြင့် ရရှိအသုံးပြုနိုင်ရန် မရှိမဖြစ်လိုအပ်သည်။ ဤလိုအပ်ချက်ကို အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်ရွက်ရန် ထိရောက်သောရေစီမံကိန်းရေးဆွဲခြင်းက ကျွန်ုပ်တို့အား ကူညီနိုင်ပေလိမ့်မည်။ ကိုဗစ...
Asian Water Development Outlook 2020
The Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO) 2020 shares the current water security status in Asia and the Pacific, including main findings and recommendations on water governance and finance as well as application of the AWDO framework in policy development and water management. According to AWDO 202...
Myanmar’s New Government Needs to Address Failures on the Environment and Public Health Over the Past Five Years
09 December 2020 - Source: The Irrawaddy As the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) works to select the right candidates for the new government's cabinet after winning another landslide election, it will be interesting to see how the new administration will tackle critical environmental issue...
Water info-sharing platform launched for Mekong nations
01 Dec 2020 - Source: Ecns - China launched an online information-sharing platform on water resources in Beijing on Monday as part of its efforts to help Mekong River countries address the challenges of climate change. The opening of the website comes as the Lancang-Mekong River Basin faces esc...
Magway region suffers over 1,800 natural disasters in 5 years
27 Nov 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Magway Region has suffered 1,865 natural disasters in five years from 2015-2016 to 2019-2020, according to the Magway Region Disaster Management Department. The government provided a K2,714.847 million fund to the residents who are adversely a...
Myanmar to form natural disaster research group
27 Nov 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - Myanmar will be establishing a new natural disaster research group to be able to conduct intensive and effective studies aimed at mitigating the effects of natural disasters. U Myo Thant, vice chair of the Myanmar Earthquake Committee, said arrangements are...