Yangon’s wells, reservoirs and lakes hit an all-time low

15 January 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times It has been nearly two months since the rain last fell over Yangon. Though many clouds have passed over the city, no precipitation has fallen from the sky. This is normal for Yangon, meteorologically-speaking. On average it rains for just over 4 days in N...

Pyin Oo Lwin braces for worst drought ever

15 Jan 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times Mandalay's Pyin Oo Lwin district is bracing for the worst drought in history, said U Lay Myint Aung, leader of the Sein Lann Pyin Oo Lwin natural environment group. The district has been experiencing reduced rainfall in recent years with 2020 recording only half t...

Agriculture ministry wants more dams amid water shortage

14 January 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times The country's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, is considering building more dams to address the increasing water scarcity in the country due to less rainfall. U Myo Tint Htun, deputy permanent secretary of the ministry, said the proper use of...

MoALI holds meeting on water supply activities to address water scarcity due to climate change

11 January 2020 - Source: The Global New Light of Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation held a coordination meeting on water resources and measures to address water scarcity caused by climate change yesterday afternoon in accordance with the COVID-19 prevention directives in Nay ...

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR SUBMISSION OF CONSTRUCTION TENDER

Project Background Lien AID is a Singapore based non-profit organization collaborating with Myaungmya Township Department of Rural Development (DRD) to improve technical solutions for water and sanitation access under its WASH Tech Action Research pilot programme. In 2020, the focus will be on testi...

Yangon Groundwater Outlook 2020 Presentation

These are the presentation file and the abstract file presented by U Myint Thein, a groundwater & wells consultant, at Yangon Groundwater Outlook 2020. Download PDF File Here Download PDF File Here

133 of 235 dams in Myanmar have less storage water

06 Jan 2021 - Source: Eleven Myanmar - Of 235 dams across Myanmar, 133 have less storage water, but only one has stopped generating electricity, said Myint Soe, deputy director of the Irrigation and Water Utilization Management Department. "This year, less water flowed to those dams. There are ...

WASH project aims for safer births in Ayeyarwady Region

04 Jan 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times - A five-year project aims to help improve Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) practices in hospitals in five townships in Ayeyarwady Region, said an official of the non-governmental group WaterAid Myanmar. The help is being provided under the project W...

Asian Water Development Outlook 2020

The Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO) 2020 shares the current water security status in Asia and the Pacific, including main findings and recommendations on water governance and finance as well as application of the AWDO framework in policy development and water management. According to AWDO 202...

Lagunpyin water supply project targeted to complete by 2022

16 December 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar Yangon City Development Committee has targeted the completion of Lagunpyin water supply project by March 2022.The project will supply water to four Dagon Myothit townships, Thakayta Township and Dawbon township.Upon completion of the project, La...

ရေ ကို ဘောဂဗေဒရှုထောင့်ဖြင့် သုံးသပ်ခြင်း_ရေသည် စီးပွားဖြစ် ကုန်စည်တစ်ခုလော

ခြေဆင်း စာရေးသူသည် ရှေ့တွင် "လူ့အခွင့်ရှူ့ထောင့်ဖြင့် ရေရပိုင်ခွင့် သုံးသပ်ခြင်း - ရေရပိုင်ခွင့်သည် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးလော" ဆိုသည့် ဆောင်းပါးတစ်ပုဒ်ကို ရေးတင်ခဲ့ဖူးပြီးဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ထိုသို့ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးရှုထောင့်မှ ဆင်ခြင်သုံးသပ်သည့် စာစုအပေါ်တွင် မေးခွန်းထုတ်စရာကောင်းနေသည်မှာ "ရေသည် စီးပ...

Water supply facilities in MraukU Tsp benefit over 30,000 residents

07 Dec 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Drinking water supply faciliites in MraukU Township completed benefiting over 30,000 people from over 5,700 households in the township. The township's MraukU Township Department of Rural Development said in 2019-2020 financial year, it constru...

SUWAS ASIA 2019A: Myanmar Team’s City Seminar

Have you heard about SUWAS (Sustainable Urban Water and Sanitation – Integrated Processes) program? Have you known that SUWAS is one of the international training programs which enhances the comprehensive capacity building required in improving sustainable urban wash and sanitation functions? With t...

Access to Clean and Safe Water in Yangon: A Case of Municipal Water Provision in Insein Township

The provision of safe and reliable water supply is important to all urban dwellers. Actually, urban water supply systems aim to be a safe and reliable water supply for all urban residents. But the municipal water supply with improved public hygiene is still inadequate even in the major cities of Yan...

Mandalay allocates K280 million to boost potable water supply

01 December 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times The Mandalay government has allocated over K280 million (USD 213,000) to boost the region's water supply to prevent shortage of potable water during the coming summer season, the regional Rural Development Department said. U Soe Than, director of Mandalay Rur...

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