11 June 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (Assembly of the Union) has approved an offer of assistance from the Netherlands government and loans from two Netherlands banks for a water supply project in Pyigyitagun township, Mandalay Region. The assembly voted last Friday on the proj...
ေျမေအာက္ေရေအာင္းလြာထဲသို႔ေရငန္တိုး၀င္ျခင္းႏွင့္မဟာရန္ကုန္ - အပိုင္း ၃
ေရခ်ိဳ၊ေရငန္ အမ်ိဳးအစား၊အဆင့္ခြဲျခားျခင္း (Grading of Fresh water Salt water) ေရခိ်ဳေရငန္အမိ်ဳးအစားမ်ားကို ဇလဘူမိေဗဒဆိုင္ရာနည္းပညာမ်ားအရ၊ေရတြင္ေပ်ာ္၀င္ေနေသာဓါတ္ပစၥည္း(ဓါတ္ဆား)စုစုေပါင္းေပ်ာ္၀င္မွဳ့ပမာဏ (Total Dissolved Solid / TDS) ဆားဓါတ္ပါ၀င္မွဳ့အနဲအမ်ား ႏွင့္ကလိုရုိက္ေပ်ာ္၀င္မွဳ့အနဲအမ်ားအလိုက္(၄)...
MoP&F will use Dutch loans for Pyigyidagun Tsp water supply, says Deputy Minister
30 May 19 - Source: Global New Light Of Myanmar - A project that will provide 7 million gallons of water per day to the 70 per cent of Pyigyidagun Township, Mandalay Region, that are not connected to a water supply system, will be implemented using loans from Dutch based Netherlands Development Fina...
Improving water and sanitation services in Mandalay City (Myanmar)
Start Date End Date Budget Funding 01/12/2016 22/12/2019 2500000 € AFD, Agence française de développement (AFD) The project aims at providing access to water to 2,000 households of Mandalay City (Amarapura Township) and at implementing incentive measures for house...
Groundwater Myanmar (some)
U Myint Thein presents (some) Groundwater in Myanmar. He explains the nature of groundwater and its existence. Additionally, He shows - (1) Major aquifer units including Monywa Sub-basin and Pale Sub-basin in Central Myanmar. (2) Utilization of Groundwater (Nation-Wide). (3) Groundwater P...
Four mega urban projects under implementation in Yangon and Mandalay
26 May 19 - Source: Global New Light Of Myanmar - The Department of Urban and Housing Development (DUHD) under Ministry of Construction is undertaking four mega urban projects in Yangon, the commercial capital and Mandalay, a commercial and cultural city of the Republic of Union of Myanmar. The proj...
Water of Life
24 May 19 - Source: Myanmar TImes - Thingyan, the well-known and loved festival to celebrate the Burmese New Year, consists of dousing fellow celebrators with water to cleanse them of the bad deeds of the previous year in order to make a fresh start. Whilst living in temperatures consistently over 3...
Introduction to Waternet & Amsterdam Rainproof
The Urban-Water-Logistics for a Greater Yangon program, to run for three years as part of the "Partners in Business' (PIB) program, has the first deliverable to present a Climate Adaptation Scoping Study. The study should provide locally grounded, inspirational and practical insight into what a...
Infographic: A Look Inside Yangon’s 80 Projects for Economic Growth
Date: 17 May 19 Source: The Irrawaddy YANGON—Major infrastructure projects slated for Yangon featured heavily at the second Invest Myanmar Summit held in January, wooing foreign direct investment to the city which some 8.2 million people call home. The Yangon regional government showcased a total o...
Eleven Media Group, well-wishers donate drinking water to villages of Pyinsalu
07 May 19 - Source: Eleven Myanmar - Under a drinking water donation programme between Eleven Media Group and other well-wishers, motorboats carrying drinking water went to five coastal villages in Pyinsalu Township, Ayeyawady Region, on May 5 following a request from those villages facing water sho...
Smart sensoring rolled out for better water management in Myanmar
Earlier this year the project 'Leapfrogging Delta Management in Myanmar' was successfully concluded. For two years Dutch and Myanmar experts, including young professionals worked together on this project. By using smart monitoring and modelling technologies they gained insights in rainfall, river fl...
Moved Villages due to bank erosion face water shortage
02 May 19 - Source: Eleven Myanmar - Villages that had temporarily moved to safer places due to riverbank erosion in Kawa Townships in Bago Region are facing water shortages. Villages, namely Yegyaw, Ahyoepon, Gar Gyi Son, Mamauk, and Tadao O villages in Kawa township, and villages facing sea faced ...
Capacity Building of Urban Services' Managers in Myanmar
Major Cities of Myanmar face great challenges to deliver high quality basic services to their citizens while urbanization is at an early but growing stage. While this urbanization process is closely linked to economic development, its effects on health can be contradictory. The urbanization of Myan...
Rural wells running dry, villagers seek aid
30 Apr 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - For the past two months Myanmar's countryside has been sizzling hot, with daytime temperatures averaging 40 degrees Celsius and above. Wells and lakes have dried up, as have streams, which are the traditional source of water for tens of thousands of villagers. The...
Satellite remote sensing used in water protection | | #AsiaNewsNetwork
28 Apr 19 - Source: Eleven Myanmar - China Daily/ANN - Satellite remote sensing has transformed environmental law enforcers into clairvoyants thanks to an app on drinking water sources developed by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, People's Daily reported. Law enforcement on drinking water so...