27 July 2020 - Source: The Irrawaddy - NAYPYITAW—The Union Parliament on Friday approved a plan to seek US$180 million (243.7 billion kyats) in funding from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the Yangon City Water Resilience Project, which aims to strengthen the security of Yangon City's wate...
Vice President U Henry Van Thio inspects renovation of embankment and strand road in Amarapura
22 July 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Vice President U Henry Van Thio, in his capacity as the Chairman of the National Disaster Management Committee, inspected the control of Ayeyawady River flood- waters caused by damages to the embankment near Shwe Gae wastewater treatment facility ...
Myanmar Conservationists Slam Moves for Endangered Irrawaddy Dolphin’s Captive Breeding
17 July 2020 - The Irrawaddy - Myanmar's approval of the gravely endangered Irrawaddy dolphin for captive commercial breeding has prompted condemnation from wildlife conservationists. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Conservation's Forestry Department ordered last month that 90...
The United Nations world water development report 2020: water and climate change
Climate change will affect the availability, quality and quantity of water for basic human needs, threatening the effective enjoyment of the human rights to water and sanitation for potentially billions of people. The hydrological changes induced by climate change will add challenges to the sustaina...
Summary and Dialogues of Episode 1 - Let's Talks about Farmer-led Water Sharing System in Myanmar
On 26th of June, 2020, Myanmar Water Portal has initiated Let's Talk About Water – Talk show Episode 1 with guest speakers, Dr. Petra Schmitter and Sanjiv de Silva from International Water Management Institute (IWMI) – Myanmar. Hosted by Kyaw Nyunt Linn, a communication manager of The Water Agency, ...
5 Ayeyawady dolphins found dead in 6 months along Ayeyawady River
01 July 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Five Ayeyawady dolphins including a one-month-old baby dolphin were found dead within six months in the Ayeyawady River along with Mandalay– Bhamo, according to the Endangered Species Conservation Division under the Fisheries Department. "Fiv...
ရေရှားပါးပြတ်လပ်လာခြင်းနှင့်အတူ အချိန်ပြည့်ရေပေးဝေရေးစနစ်မှ အချိန်အကန့်အသတ်ဖြင့် ရေပေးဝေရေးစနစ်သို့ ပြောင်းလဲလာသော မြို့ပြများ
သင်ဟာ ၂၄ နာရီ ၇ရက် အချိန်ပြည့် သောက်သုံးရေ အမြဲရရှိနေတဲ့ မြို့တစ်မြို့မှာ နေထိုင်ပါသလား။ ဒါဆိုလျှင်ဖြင့် သင်ဟာ ကံကောင်းသူတစ်ယောက်ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ယခုအချိန်တွင် ကမ္ဘာတစ်ဝှမ်း ကြုံတွေ့နေရသည့် တူညီသောအရာဖြစ်လာသည်မှာ မြို့ပြအများစုသည် ရေပြတ်တောက်နိုင်သည့် အခြေအနေနှင့် ရင်ဆိုင်နေရပြီး ရေရရှိနိုင်မှုသည် စီ...
ရေရှည်တည်တံ့ ခိုင်မြဲသည့် မြို့ပြရေဆိုးသန့်စင်မှုအတွက် အရေးပါသော အချက် (၄) ချက်
Success for the world's urbanization hotspots depends on matching sanitation services to city realities. ကမ္ဘာ့မြို့ပြဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှု နေရာများအတွက် အောင်မြင်မှုသည် မြို့၏မှန်ကန်သော တိုးတက်မှုများ၊ သန့်ရှင်းရေး ၀န်ဆောင်မှုများနှင့် ကိုက်ညီမှုပေါ်တွင် မူတည်သည်။ အချို့သော မြို့ပြအခြေခံ အဆောက်အအုံဆိ...
National Investment Plan for Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), WASH in Schools and WASH in Health Facilities 2016-2030
This Investment Plan defines the costs of achieving and sustaining the goal and objectives set out in the National Strategy for Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), WASH in Schools and WASH in Health Facilities (2016). It covers WASH in rural areas, schools (primary to high school...
The Netherlands and Myanmar signed the grant agreement for Mandalay Pyigyitagun Water Supply Development Project
24 JUN 2020 - Source: Embassy of the Netherlands in Myanmar - The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is pleased to announce the grant agreement signing of Mandalay Pyigyitagun Water Supply Development Project. The Netherlands and Myanmar signed the grant agreement for Pyigyitagun Water S...
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Join the Water Talk Show - Let’s talk about Farmer-led Water Sharing System in Myanmar
Water distribution becomes more effective and equal in central dry zone to farmers' fields in a result of Pyawt Ywar Pump Irrigation Project. Pyawt Ywar is situated 70 kilometers west of Mandalay in Myinmu Township where Mu River pour into Ayeyarwaddy River. Farmer empowerment and greater involvemen...
Conservation group proposes marine national park on Rakhine coast
23 JUN 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - A local conservation group wants an island and a river in Rakhine State to be designated a marine national park to protect and conserve the area. The two sites are Nanthar Island and the Mayyu estuary in Sittwe and Rathedaung townships – the sixth...
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Erosion prevention work for Nga Moe Yeik creek to finish in end-August
22 June 2020 - Source: The Global New Light of Myanmar The erosion prevention work and construction of dyke revetments in the five curves along Nga Moe Yeik creek are completing in the end-August, under the supervision of the Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems (region 1)...
Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Hydropower Sector in Myanmar
This chapter outlines the status of hydropower development in Myanmar. In absence of a hydropower policy or plan in Myanmar, the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) will assess the existing hydropower plants and planned projects in the major river basins and sub-basins. The analysis firstly cov...
လူတိုင်းအတွက် နယ်ခံ ခေါင်းဆောင်မှု
The 2019 World Water Day is focusing on the huge challenge – to leave no-one-behind. ၂၀၁၉ ကမ္ဘာရေ နေ့သည် ကြီးမားသော စိန်ခေါ်မှုတစ်ခုဖြစ်သည့် "မည်သူမျှနောက်ချန်မထားခဲ့ရေး" အပေါ် ဦးတည်ချက်ထားသည်။ ၂၀၁၉ခုနှစ် ၏ကမ္ဘာ့ရေနေ့ လှုပ်ရှားမှုသည် ခြုံငုံမိသည့်လူဦးရေရာခိုင်နှုန်းတိုးပွားစေရန်ရည်ရွယ်သည်...