The water quality survey targeting the Hlaing River basin and the Doke Hta Waddy River basin was conducted as one of activities of the Project for Capacity Development in Basic Water Environment Management and EIA System. This report summarizes the water quality survey results which are to be utiliz...
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Supply, distribution of water in Yangon to be privatized: Mayor
26 Aug 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) will invite the private sector to take over the supply and distribution of water in Yangon, Mayor U Maung Maung Soe was quoted by state media as saying. He said the YCDC has been facing difficulties managing wastage and...
Groundwater as a Source of Drinking Water in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
The paper establishes a baseline of how many people across case study countries rely on groundwater for drinking water (79%) and explores resource management issues relevant to WASH professionals. The information was used in an analysis of proportions of people using groundwater as their primary sou...
Dawei flood and landslide damages home, water shortage
13 Aug 19 - Source: Eleven Myanmar - DAWEI- Flood and landslide occurred in the villages in Ye Phyu Township, Dawei District, Taninthari Region, caused house damages and drinking water shortage, say locals. Due to heavy downpours across Dawei District, villages were submerged and the road on Yangon-...
Pipelines constructed to distribute 3mln gallons of water to Thakayta, Dawbon
12 Aug 19 - Source: Global New Light Of Myanmar - Construction of pipelines is underway from Lagwunpyin water storage facility to Thakayta and Dawbon townships, Yangon Region. The project is expected to distribute three million gallons of water every day at completion. U Myint Zaw Than, Deputy Direc...
Some cities around the world are sinking
By Khin Maung Myint 11 Aug 19 - Source: Global New Light Of Myanmar - During our younger days, we knew of only one city that was inundated the whole year round. The thoroughfares are a network of canals instead of paved roads. At school, when we first came to learn about that city, we were astonishe...
ဇင္းမယ္ ၏ ေရဆိုးျပဳ ျပင္ေရး တစ္ေစ႕တစ္ေစါင္း
"ပင္း" ျမစ္ ႏွင္႕ "မယ္ခ" တူးေျမာင္း (Ping River & Mae Kha Canal) ***************************** ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံေျမာက္ပိုင္းရိွ ျမိဳ႕ေတာ္ ဇင္းမယ္ (Chiang Mai) ၏ ျမိဳ႕ျပအမိွဳက္မ်ားကို ေျခရာခံေဖာ္ျပခဲ႕ရာမွ ျမိဳ႕ျပလိုအပ္ခ်က္ တစ္ခုျဖစ္ေသာ ထြက္လာသည္႕ ေရဆိုးမ်ားကို မည္သို႕မည္ပုံ အေရးယူေဆာင္ရြက္ေနသည္ကို တစ...
Urban Water Logistics for a Greater Yangon Program (UWLY) Water Roadmap 2018-2021 Workshop
Introduction A series of activities to support Yangon Region Government (YRG) in tackling urban water and logistics challenges of Yangon have been done within nine months after the launch of Urban Water Logistics for a Greater Yangon program (UWLY). On 23rd of July, the UWLY consortium has com...
The Completion of New Yangon City Master Planning
July 23, 2019 The master planning for New Yangon City was recently completed by AECOM, which identified the most efficient land-use planning and built environment. This included infrastructure, economic development, environmental planning, transportation planning, social and cultural planning. AECOM...
Water for Society - Including All
"Water for society – including all", a 2019 World Water Week theme, reminds me how water plays a fundamental role within society. by Author - Written by Pan Ei Ei Phyo Access to clean water and sanitation is a basic human right, it is essential to ensure that people have safe, secure affordable wate...
Survey finds 40pc of Yangonites dissatisfied with YCDC
05 July 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) is the entity charged with managing and providing many of the services, such as planning, cleaning, transportation, and infrastructure development, among others, that keep a modern city humming. As such, the YCDC's per...
Sanitation Assessment - Report (ROSAMUR Project)
Within the framework of the capacity building program for Myanmar urban services providers implemented by GRET (ROSAMUR project), a comprehensive assessment study on sanitation in Magway city was conducted with the key following objectives: To gather and analyze data and information on sanitation co...
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PIB UWLY Consortium hosts Scoping Workshop to develop water interventions for Thaketa township
Source: The Water AgencyDate: June 21st, 2019 From June 10-14, 2019, a workshop 'Scoping the interventions for Thaketa township' was organized in Yangon as part of the Urban Water track of the Partners in Business: Urban Water Logistics for a Greater Yangon (PIB UWLY) program. Previously a successfu...
The Amarapura Project - Improving Water Service in Mandalay City
"Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all" (SDG 6)."Making the cities in Myanmar more sustainable, more resilient and more inclusive" (SDG 11). We did an interview with Thibaut Le Loc'h, the coordinator of the Water, Sanitation and Solid Waste Management program...
Japanese company to conduct feasibility study on new waste disposal method in Monywa
11 June 19 - Source: Global New Light Of Myanmar - Japan's Fujita Company will study the feasibility of implementing a new waste disposal system in Monywa in July, said U Thit Htoo Myint, the Director of Sagaing Region's Municipal Committee. "Monywa produces about 150 tons of garbage a day. The curr...