20 March 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - To prevent the insufficient supply of drinking water in summer, Mandalay Rural Development Department MRDD is planning to provide drinking water, spending K 24 million for 51 villages in 13 townships in Mandalay Region. The ward administrators c...
Yangon water supply upgrade may bypass the poorest
19 March 2020 - Source: Frontier Myanmar The Myanmar and Japanese governments are working together to deliver clean, drinkable water to millions of Yangon residents and end groundwater use, but the city's poorest households may miss out on the benefits. By EAINT THET SU | FRONTIER WITH almost...
Water purification taking root
17 MAR 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - As Yangon heats up over the next few weeks, people are looking for ways to cool down and stay hydrated. As technology also improves, the more health-conscious consumers seek out new types of water purifiers to keep our H2O extra fresh. One such water purif...
Minimizing water wastage ensures drinking water security of Yangon
15 MAR 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - With a growing number of people and changes in lifestyles, the population density has been gradually high in Yangon. When Yangon becomes a densely populated area, it leads to the limited safe drinking water available for the Yangonites to con...
Under pressure – Sustainable groundwater in Myanmar
Source: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research-Restoring artesian groundwater pressure in Myanmar's Central Dry Zone (CDZ) and developing strategies for its sustainable use is the focus of a new ACIAR-funded project. ACIAR has commissioned the International Water Management Instit...
Clarify Your Water with Drumstick Seeds
07 MAR 2020 - Most of the surface water (rivers, lakes, streams, etc.) normally have turbidity to some extent. In Myanmar, people who live near these sources generally use surface water for domestic and even drinking purposes. Instead of using the turbid water directly, clarifying it with some ...
မိုက်ခရိုပလတ်စတစ်တွေဟာ ရေဆိုးသန့်စင်မှုအတွက် စိန်ခေါ်ချက်တစ်ခုလား။
ပလတ်စတစ် ပြဿနာနှင့် ၎င်းကနေ ကမ္ဘာ့သမုဒ္ဒရာဂေဟစနစ်အပေါ် သက်ရောက်နေတဲ့ ထိခိုက်မှုတွေကို ကောင်းစွာမှတ်တမ်းတင်ထားခဲ့ပြီးပြီ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ သတင်းတွေမှာ ဖော်ြပကြတဲ့ ပလတ်စတစ်အမှိုက်တွေ ပြန့်ကျဲ ပြည့်နှက်နေတဲ့ ပင်လယ်ဓာတ်ပုံတွေနဲ့ ၎င်းတို့ကြား ပင်လယ်နေသတ္တဝါတွေပိတ်မိနေရပုံ စတဲ့ စိ...
An episode of Partners for International Business (PIB) - Water Logistics Updates and Tharketa Project Launch
The workshop, which is one of the roadmap activities of Partners for International Businesses (PIB) for Urban Water and Water Logistics, was held at Yangon Parliament building in January 21. The opening speech was given by the Chief Minister of Yangon Regional Government sharing the vision of becomi...
Thailand firm to build new urban centre with construction ministry
28 Jan 20 - Source: Myanmar Times - The construction ministry inked a deal with a Thai firm to build a US$1 billion "smart city" in northeastern Yangon. The JV agreement - signed last Friday - would pave way to more than 30,000 new jobs and US$60 million in direct tax, the two sides said. The minist...
Japan provides funding for four infrastructure projects
22 Jan 20 - Source: Myanmar Times - Japan announced yesterday that it is providing loans totalling ¥120.9 billion (US$1.1 billion) to Myanmar for four infrastructure projects. Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar Ichiro Maruyama and Myanmar's Deputy Minister for Planning, Finance and Industry U Maung Maun...
Water a worry for Myanmar’s farmers
13 Jan 20 - Source: Myanmar Times - Myanmar's rice growers are increasingly concerned about the amount of water in the country available for the irrigation of their crops, industry insiders say. And their worries are not exactly without foundation. U Myo Tint Tun, assistant secretary at the Ministry...
Yangon starts project to supply water for growing population
13 Jan 20 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Yangon government has begun a project aimed at supplying more water to the region's fast growing population by tapping the Toe River, which is one of the eastern most distributaries in the Ayeyarwady Delta. Yangon Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein said Toe River...
Japanese firms offer to improve Yangon’s water infrastructure
20 Dec 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - Some 22 Japanese companies are to meet with Myanmar companies to explore possible partnerships in the operation and maintenance of the economic capital's water system. The companies will come to Yangon on a public-private partnership mission this month as part of ...
Consortium awarded funding to undertake Climate Adaptation Project in Thaketa
A consortium of eight companies and organisations has been awarded financial support from the prestigious Partners for Water innovation fund of the Dutch government to undertake a two-year climate adaptation pilot project in the township of Thaketa (Yangon). The multidisciplinary consortium consisti...
မြေအောက်မိုးရေလှောင်ကန်စီမံကိန်း
ဟောင်ကောင်မြို့၏ တောင်တန်းများဝန်းရံထားသော "Happy" မြေနိမ့်ပိုင်းတောင်ကြား ဒေသသည် မိုးများချိန်တွင် မကြာခဏရေကြီးရေလျှံမှုများ ကြုံတွေ့ရတတ်ပါသည်။ ဟောင်ကောင် မြို့၏ ယာဉ်ကြောအကျပ်တည်းဆုံးနေရာတစ်ခုတွင် အများပြည်သူနှင့်စီးပွားရေး လုပ်ငန်းများအား အနှောက်အယှက်အနည်းဆုံးဖြင့် ရေကြီးရေလျှံမှုပြဿနာကို ဖြေရှင်း...