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စိမ်းလန်းသော (မြေ)နေရာများနှင့် အပြာရောင် (ရေ)နေရာများ၏ လူမှုရေးနှင့်စီးပွားရေးဆိုင်ရာအရေးပါမှု
ရေရှည်တည်တံ့သည့် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ရပ်ကွက်များတွင် ပျှမ်းမျှအားဖြင့် လူတို့သည် ပိုကျန်းမာလေ့ရှိပြီး ကလေးများသည် အပြင်ထွက်် ကစားလေ့ရှိသည်။ မကြာသေးမီ နှစ်များအတွင်း မြို့နှင့် မြို့ကြီးများတွင် စိမ်းလန်းစိုပြေခြင်း၏ အကျိုးကျေးဇူးများ နှင့် ပတ်သက်သော အချက်အလက်များ ပိုမိုရရှိလာသည်။ လူအများစုသည် ပိုမို စိမ်းလန...
ရေကဏ္ဍပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာအကျပ်အတည်းတွေကို လျှော့ချဖို့ သိပ္ပံပညာလုံလုံလောက်လောက်ရှိပြီလား?
International Water Management Institute – IWMI ၏ အထွေထွေ ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးနှင့် ၂၀၁၉ ဘူဒါပတ်စ် ရေညီလာခံ (Budapest Water Summit 2019) တွင် အဓိကဟောပြောသူတစ်ဦးဖြစ်သော Dr. Claudia Sadoff က "ရေကဏ္ဍပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာအကျပ်အတည်းတွေကို လျှော့ချဖို့ သိပ္ပံပညာ လုံလုံလောက်လောက်ရှိပြီလား" ဟု ထိုညီလာခံမှာ မေးခွန...
Group plans to start distributing water in Pyin Oo Lwin
17 January 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times Pyin Oo Lwin in Mandalay Region is expected to run out of water by the end of the month. The Pyin Oo Lwin Sein Lann Natural Environment Group plans to start distributing water this weekend to help the district's residents manage through the drought. The w...
MPs take steps to relieve water stress
16 January 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times Infrastructure and electricity are priorities for discussion in the new Hluttaw. Only a few MPs from townships facing water stress raised issues of access to clean water. For their constituents, there is nothing as important as access to a reliable water ...