Integrated Water Resources Management
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Water and Society
Featured News Editorials Water Themes Water Governance Industry & Economic Development Myanmar Water Portal Thursday, 08 September 2022 On this water planet, water plays a very important role in society. Humans cannot exist without water since it forms our landscape and is also essential for the production of crops. However,…
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Amid the 47th World Environment Day, water remains a conundrum for the environment
Featured Editorials Interviews & Opinions Indonesia Water Journal Indonesia Water Portal Monday, 28 June 2021 Photo by: Rachman/Bisnis. This year, the world celebrates the 47th World Environment Day. A day where everyone encourages awareness and action for the preservation of the environment. Each year, the program has provided a theme…
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The Science and Policy of Environmental Flows in Myanmar
A symposium and technical workshop – The Science and Policy of Environmental Flows in Myanmar was held on 15th August 2018 at Inya Lake hotel by WWF Myanmar. U Cho Cho, chairman of NWRC Advisory Group and Professor Dr. Khin Than Yu, pro-rector of Yangon Technological University gave an opening…
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First phase of Integrated Water Resources Management in Bago sub-basin area
The concept of Integrated Water Resources Management has been defined by the Global Water Partnership in 2011. In term, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources in order to maximize economic and social welfare in an…
- Agriculture & Irrigation
Proper Water and Land Management Scheme could help to get water effectively in Central Dry Zone
Main Canal – Thet Win / Golden Cougar Co., Ltd. the chili harvesting was taken in Na Be Khu in the scheme by Petra Schmitter, IWMI Water distribution becomes more effective and equal in central dry zone to farmers’ fields in a result of Pyawt Ywar Pump Irrigation Project. Pyawt…
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Good Floods, bad floods: managing the negatives of floods while maintaining its many benefits
Photo – Supplied The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) manages the “Testing Adaptation in Flood-Based Resource Management” project that seeks to support the integration of Flood-Based Farming Systems (FBFS) in the Ayeyarwaddy Delta of Myanmar. Funded by the European Commission and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the project…
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Introduction of second phase: Myanmar – Norway Environmental Programme
27 NOV 2019 – Myanmar-Norway Bilateral Environmental Programme is the collaboration between Myanmar authorities, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, the Ministry of Transport and Communication and Norwegian institutions, Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Norwegian Environment Agency, SINTEF. Funding agency: The Norwegian Ministry…
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Customizing Environmental Flows to Myanmar
The symposium and technical workshop was focused on ongoing projects and international experiences of adapting the environmental flows concept to Myanmar. In the workshop, concrete options and case studies for implementing environmental flows in Myanmar were conducted. The symposium was held for two days on October 29th and 30th, 2019…
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Sharing Invaluable Experience of a Water Resources Expert – Interview with U Khin Latt
There are many experienced water experts who have been working over many years in the Myanmar Water Sector. They came across the military junta ruling from 1962 – 2011 (ref. here) and experts and specialists were oppressed under the military regime. Till today, they stand up in their self-righteousness. They…
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ရှေ့သို့ ခရီးရောက်တိုးတက်သော မိတ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများဖြစ်ရေး နည်းဥပဒေသများ
တစ်ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ သဘောတူညီထားတဲ့ ရေရှည်တည်တံ့သော ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး ရည်မှန်းချက် (Sustainable Development Goals) ကို အခုလက်ရှိအချိန်ကနေ ၂၀၃၀ ခုနှစ် အတွင်း ကျွန်တော်တို့ စွမ်းဆောင်အောင်မြင်နိုင်ဖို့ဆိုရင် လူပေါင်း သန်းတစ်ဝက်နီးပါးကို အန္တရာယ်ကင်း စိတ်ချရတဲ့ သောက်ရေရရှိအောင်၊ လူပေါင်းတစ်သန်းကို ပိုပြီးတိုးတက်ကောင်းမွန်တဲ့ မိလ္လာရေဆိုးထုတ်သန့်စင်စနစ်တွေ နေ့စဉ်ရရှိနိုင်ဖို့အတွက်လိုအပ်တယ်။ SDG 6 အရ ရေနှင့်မိလ္လာရေဆိုးသန့်စင်စနစ်အတွက် ရည်မှန်းချက်တွေပြည့်မီဖို့စကေးပမာဏကတော့ အကြီးကြီးပဲ။ ဒါပေမဲ့ လုံးဝမဖြစ်နိုင်တဲ့ စိန်ခေါ်မှုတော့မဟုတ်ဘူး။ အောင်မြင်မှုရရှိဖို့အတွက် ပါဝင်ရမယ့်အရာတွေ အများကြီးလိုအပ်တယ်။ သို့ပေမယ့် အခုလိုကြောက်လန့်စရာကောင်းတဲ့ လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်ဟာ မိတ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများပေါင်းစပ်ဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်းနဲ့ ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်မှု ဆိုတဲ့ အခန်းကဏ္ဍကို အခြားအစိတ်အပိုင်းတွေထက်ပိုပြီး အပြည့်အဝ အရေးပါစေတယ်။ ဒါကို မိတ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများနဲ့ နယ်ပယ်ကဏ္ဍပေါင်းစုံက အဖွဲ့အစည်းတွေပူးပေါင်းပြီး ကိုင်တွယ်ဖြေရှင်းနည်း တွေကို ထောက်ခံအားပေးထားတဲ့…
