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Clean Rivers are Essential for Indonesia’s Clean Energy Transition
News General News Editorials Interviews & Opinions Indonesia Water Portal Wednesday, 12 January 2022 The Mamberamo, one of Indonesia’s largest rivers, has long been the target of hydropower development plans, though not without controversy. Photo by: Benfrizsmalau via Wikimedia Commons. Source: MongabayDate: January 11, 2022 Commentary by Warief Djajanto Basorie…
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Deforestation, construction to blame for central Vietnam landslides
News General News Vietnam Water Portal Tuesday, 03 November 2020 Aerial view of an area in Tra Leng Commune, Quang Nam Province where a landslide buried over 50 people on October 28, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Thanh. 02 Nov 20 Vietnamnet Source Deforestation, construction and other man-made changes to the natural…
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Press award on ocean plastic pollution reduction launched
News General News Vietnam Water Portal Friday, 22 July 2022 July 20th, 2022, following VietnamPlus. The press award on reducing plastic pollution in the ocean was launched in Hanoi on July 20, along with a photo contest themed white pollution and its effects on marine ecosystems.Jointly organised by the UNDP Vietnam,…
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The perspectives of local marginalized groups upon water in the midst of COVID-19 in Myanmar
News Editorials Water Themes Disaster & Flooding River & Inland Waters Water Supply Myanmar Water Portal Thursday, 28 April 2022 Caption – From Seikgyi Khanayngto, Southern Part of Yangon City. People who relied on the pond water for year-round. Photo taken by Le’ Le” Myat (Researcher) COVID-19 pandemic has been…
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Sustainable water management bolsters water resiliency
News General News Editorials Interviews & Opinions Indonesia Water Portal Wednesday, 16 March 2022 Illustration of water infratsructure in Indonesia. Photo by: PUPR Source: ANTARADate: March 16, 2022 Jakarta (ANTARA) – The sustainable water resource management program is necessary to improve Indonesia’s water resiliency, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga…
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Lessons from natural disasters in central region
News General News Vietnam Water Portal Tuesday, 03 November 2020 Soldiers and officers cross streams to deliver food to villagers isolated by floods and landslides in Phước Sơn District. — Photo laodong.vn 03 Nov 20 Vietnamnews Source HÀ NỘI — October left devastation for millions of people in central Việt Nam.…
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Getting to know Biosphere Reserves
News Editorials Indonesia Water Portal Saturday, 18 September 2021 Original photo by Didi Lotze. There are currently 714 biosphere reserves all over the world, and 19 of which are in Indonesia. Swipe left to read more! Check out more about the biosphere reserves with the tag #BiosphereReserveSeries or simply click here! …
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Hau Giang, French agency partner to develop climate resilient city
News General News Vietnam Water Portal Sunday, 24 July 2022 An aerial view of Nga Bay city of Hau Giang province (Photo: laodong.vn) July 20th, 2022, following VietnamPlus. The People’s Committee of Hau Giang province had a meeting with a delegation of the French Development Agency (AFD) on July 19 to…
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မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ်များကို ပင်လယ်ရေမျက်နှာပြင်မြင့်တက်ခြင်းမှ ကာကွယ်ရန် နည်းလမ်း ၄ သွယ်
News Editorials Burmese Articles General Water Themes Disaster & Flooding River & Inland Waters Myanmar Water Portal Wednesday, 06 July 2022 အလျင်အမြန်မြင့်တက်နေသော ပင်လယ်ရေမျက်နှာပြင်၏ြခိမ်းခြောက်မှုဒဏ်ကိုခံနေရသော မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ်တို့သည် ရေအောက်နစ်မြုပ်တော့မည့် အခြေအနေနှင့်ရင်ဆိုင်နေရသည်။ ပင်လယ်ရေ မျက်နှာပြင် မြင့်တက်လာမှု၏ သက်ရောက်မှုဒဏ်ကိုကာကွယ်နိုင်ရန်အတွက်ဆိုလျှင် မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ်မြေများကို မြစ်တို့မှရရှိသော သဲများ၊ ရွှံ့မြေများနှင့် မြှင့်တင် ထားရန်လိုအပ်သည်။ သို့သော်ငြား မြစ်များမှ ပံ့ပိုးပေးနိုင်သော သဲနဲ့ ရွှံ့မြေ တို့မှာ ကမ္ဘာနှင့်အဝှမ်း လျော့နည်းကျဆင်းလာပြီဖြစ်ပြီး မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ် များအထိ မရောက်ရှိနိုင်တော့သည့်အတွက် ရေကြီးမှုများ၊ မြေဆုံးရှုံးမှုများနှင့်ရင်ဆိုင်လာနေရသည်။ Utrecht…
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Indonesia has been selected to host the World Water Forum in 2024
News General News Editorials Interviews & Opinions Indonesia Water Portal Monday, 21 March 2022 Minister of Public Works and Public Housing, Basuki Hadimuljono. Photo by: KOMPAS Source: KOMPASDate: March 21, 2022 JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) announced that Indonesia was chosen to host…
