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...
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...
စိမ်းလန်းစိုပြေသော ဆည်များ ဆိုတာ ဖြစ်နိုင်ချေရှိလား
ကီလိုမီတာ ၁၀၀၀ ကျော်ရှည်လျားသော မြစ်များသည် ပြတ်တောက်ခြင်း၊ မြစ်လမ်းကြောင်းများပြောင်းသွားခြင်း သို့မဟုတ် ရေစီးဆင်းမှုမရှိတော့ပဲ လုံးဝခမ်းခြောက်သွားကုန်ကြသည်အထိ ဖြစ်နေပြီဖြစ်သည်။ဆည် တာတမံများ တည်ဆောက်ခြင်းနှင့်ပတ်သတ်၍ မြစ်များတွင် သက်စောင့်ရေထားရှိရန်နှင့် ရေဝေရေလဲဒေသစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုများအား ဆွေးနွေးရန...
EU suspends development funds for Myanmar
04 March 2021 - Source: Bangkok Post - BRUSSELS: The European Union has suspended its support for development projects in Myanmar to avoid providing financial assistance to the military after it seized power last month, officials said on Thursday. The 27-nation EU informed a committee of the World T...
UN suspends climate work with Myanmar government following military coup
03 March 2021 - Source: Climate Change News - The military takeover in Myanmar raises fears of pollution, deforestation and revival of a controversial hydropower dam, as international agencies put climate projects on hold The UN has suspended climate projects that require working with Myanmar'...
Treading Water: The Dark Legacy of Hydropower Development in Myanmar
Hydropower may be a source of renewable energy, but if left uncontrolled, it might cost more to the planet than we think. Source: University of Sydney | Thiri Shwesin Aung - While hydropower is a vital source of renewable energy, the development of new hydropower plants can often result i...
Seminar on Environmental Technology - 4th Myanmar-Japan Environmental Policy Dialogue Related Event
Background and Purpose of Seminar Since 2015, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Conservation (MONREC) of Myanmar and the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ) have been promoting bilateral cooperation including the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM). In 2018, with the aim of promo...
Yangon’s floating night market
24 JAN 2021 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - By Swe Oo Wai, Translated by Than Tun Aung A large number of markets under the management of the Yangon City Development Committee are opened for enabling dwellers of Yangon City to buy goods and foods for daily consumption. Markets are locate...
Agriculture ministry wants more dams amid water shortage
14 January 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times The country's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, is considering building more dams to address the increasing water scarcity in the country due to less rainfall. U Myo Tint Htun, deputy permanent secretary of the ministry, said the proper use of...
Invitation to the “Tha Bar Wa” Green Finance Webinar/Workshop on Saving Energy, Reducing Waste Water, Access Credits and Finance
Attend our Webinar/Workshop on 15thJanuary2021at 13:00-15:00 and understand how your company can SAVE ENERGY AND MONEY, BUY NEW EQUIPMENT, INSTALL WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS and GET CREDITS from our four Banks: CB Bank, MAB Bank, MCB Bank and A-Bank. We are the "Tha Bar Wa", an EU funded pr...
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...
Introduction to Water Sensitive Design and Role of some Water Sensitive Tools for Flood Control in Urban Areas
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...
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 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...