07 March 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - Private water pumps will be allowed beside the moat during Thingyan celebrations in Mandalay from April 13 to 16, said U Thet Naing, deputy head of the Revenue Department of the Mandalay City Development Committee. Although the MCDC allowed applications for perm...
Myanmar suggests tax exemption to firms investing in new Yangon project
05 March 19 - Source: Saigon Giai Phong Online - Myanmar is offering zone-wise tax exemption to enterprises investing in the new Yangon city project. This aims to attract more investors to the city expansion project being implemented on lands to the west of Yangon river, according to the Myanmar Inv...
Paying too much for drinking water? Here is what you can do
In Myanmar, as in many other Southeast Asian countries, you cannot drink water from the tap. Buying water is expensive and conventional treatment methods are inconvenient. A Dutch couple made it their mission to make getting safe drinking water much easier. After being highly successf...
ေျမေအာက္ေရႏွင့္က်န္းမာေရး၊ (Groundwater & Health) အပိုင္း ၃
က။ ေသာက္သံုးေရအတြက္ စက္ေရတြင္းတူးရန္ ေနရာေရြးခ်ယ္ပါက ေအာက္ပါတို႔ကို အဓိကစဥ္းစားပါရန္။ ၁။ မိလႅာအညစ္အေၾကးစြန္႔ကန္၊ပိုက္လိုင္းမ်ားႏွင့္အနဲဆံုးေပ(၅၀)ကြာေ၀းရန္ ၂။ အသံုးမျပဳသည့္တြင္းႏွင့္အနဲဆုံးေပ(၅၀)ကြာေ၀းရန္ ၃။ ျခံ၀န္းအတြင္းရိွက်င္းအိမ္သာႏွင့္အနဲဆံုးေပ(၅၀)ကြာရန္ ၄။ စြန္ျပစ္ပစၥည္းအမွုိက္ပံုႏွင့္အနဲဆံုးေပ...
ေရ သယံဇာတ ထိန္းသိမ္းေရး
အက်ဥ္းခ်ဴပ္ အေရးပါးဆံုးေသာ ေရခ်ိဳသယံဇာတမ်ား မညစ္ညမ္းေစရန္နွင့္ သဘာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ကို တန္ဖိုးထားတတ္ေစရန္ ေဆာင္ရြက္သင့္သည့္အခ်က္မ်ားကို ဖတ္ရွဴရမည္ျဖစ္သည္။ လူသားဘ၀ ရွင္သန္ရပ္တည္နုိင္ေရး၊ ဖြံျဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရးတို႕အတြက္ တစ္နုိင္တစ္ပိုင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္နုိင္သည့္ လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားျဖစ္ပါသျဖင့္ ကိုယ္စီကိုယ္ငွာ လုပ္ေဆာင္ၾကပါ...
Japanese company offers new wastewater solution
18 Feb 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - A Japanese company says it has developed new wastewater treatment technology for buildings and industry that is more effective in protecting the environment. IGE Energy Co Ltd introduced PVA gel, or polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel, which it said immobilises harmful mic...
ေျမေအာက္ေရႏွင့္ က်န္းမာေရး၊ (Groundwater & Health) အပိုင္း ၂
ေျမေအာက္ေရတြင္ေပ်ာ္၀င္ေနသည့္ဓါတ္ပစၥည္းမ်ား၏စံႏွန္းသတ္မွတ္ခ်က္ႏွင့္က်န္းမာေရးသက္ေရာက္မူ႔မ်ား (Dissolved Chemical Properties, Standard (WHO2011) and Health Impact & Remarks) (အသံုးျပဳသည့္ယူနွစ္ = မီလီဂရမ္ပါလီတာ (mg/l =milligrams/liter, or parts per million (ppm ); Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NT...
ေျမေအာက္ေရႏွင့္က်န္းမာေရး၊ (Groundwater & Health) အပိုင္း ၁
စကားဦး (Preface)။ ။ျမန္မာႏိွင္ငံတြင္ေျမေအာက္ေရကိုစက္ေရတြင္းမ်ား၊ လက္တူးတြင္းမ်ားက တဆင့္ထုတ္ယူသံုးစြဲေနၾကသည္မွာ လြတ္လပ္ေရးမရမွီေခတ္ကစ၍ ယေန႔အထိပင္ျဖစ္သည္။ (၁၉၈၈)ခုႏွစ္ေနာင္းပုိင္းကစ၍ ပိုမိုမ်ားျပားစြာ ထုတ္ယူသံုးစြဲလာၾကသည္။ ေသာက္သံုးေရ၊စိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရ၊ စက္ရံုအလုပ္ရုံသံုးေရ၊ ေမြးျမဴေရးလုပ္ငန္းသံုးေရ၊ စသည...
The Gyo Phyu Pipeline and his companions - A Renovation Project of Pipeline
The idea is not to promote our company but to promote collaboration by Raphael Monnier We made an interview with Raphael Monnier who is the co-founder of Yangon-based architecture and design company Blue Temple. He shared his thoughts and visions about renovation of Gyo Phyu pipeline. Monn...
On track to meet Yangon’s growing water needs
04 Feb 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - With the hot season not far away, water shortages are set to become a problem again in many parts of Yangon. According to U Myint Zaw Than, Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) deputy head of the Engineering Department for Water and Sanitation, the YCDC suppli...
First impressions of Thaketa Township
After the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) had requested us to see how experiences with climate adaptation in the Netherlands could benefit Yangon, our team of The Water Agency decided to make a first explorative trip to the Thaketa Township in Yangon to gain an impression of the various wat...
Drinking water plants inspected in Yangon
30 Jan 19 - Source: Mizzima - The Department of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been carrying out surprise inspections at drinking water plants in four townships of Yangon Region every month, state media reported quoting Dr Min Wun, the head of FDA (Yangon). "The plan is expected to cover the...
Half of water meter fees wasted in Mon, minister says
17 Jan 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - Mawlamyine township in Mon State collected municipal fees on only half the volume of water consumed last year, said U Min Kyaw Lwin, minister of Municipal Affairs for the Mon State government. The 23 districts of Mawlamyine township used 190 billion litres of wate...
Meeting with Myanmar Purified Drinking Water Association about groundwater extraction
U Ye Htut, Chairman of Myanmar Purified Drinking Water Association, speaks about the story of the association, the objectives and the current activities in Myanmar. He provided me of information and profile of the association and tried to elaborate more about its activities in Myanmar. Myanmar Purif...
Overexploitation Of Groundwater And Consequence In Yangon (Myanmar) And Bangkok (Thailand)
Current status of Groundwater in greater Yangon compare to Bangkok: Bangkok is more 40 years advance in groundwater management than Yangon. Be aware of Groundwater in Myanmar Myint Thein, Consultant (Groundwater & Wells) Advisory Group Member (Groundwater) NWRC, Myanmar myint.th...