Urban Development
- Disaster & Flooding
Google Takes on Flooding with Satellites, Machine Learning
News General News Water Themes Water Governance Industry & Economic Development Disaster & Flooding Myanmar Water Portal Tuesday, 22 November 2022 Source: stormwater.wef.orgLeveraging the technology behind its existing suite of satellite imagery products and its expertise in artificial intelligence, search-engine giant Google (Mountain View, California) is pursuing new ways to…
- Myanmar
Long-term options for the former state-of-the-art sewerage system in Yangon
News Editorials Community News Water Themes Industry & Economic Development Water Supply Basins Lower Ayeyarwady Kyaw Nyunt Linn Friday, 03 August 2018 A team led by IMC Worldwide, including experts from Satec, Royal HaskoningDHV and BAM Nuttall, are leading a detailed asset condition survey of Yangon’s downtown sewerage system and…
- Community News
The way that German water experts can help the Myanmar Water Sector
Myanmar is a huge market for water and wastewater sector among Southeast Asian region. Additionally, Myanmar is facing the challenge of waste water treatment in industrial sector but also technical training for the future generation. “One of the key challenges that registered industries are facing in industrial sector is inclusiveness.…
- Editorials
Meeting with Myanmar Purified Drinking Water Association about groundwater extraction
U Ye Htut, Chairman of Myanmar Purified Drinking Water Association 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…
- Basins
Working towards a Resilient Yangon, uncovering the water needs and challenges in Thaketa township
Since October 2018 a coalition of Dutch water organisations is working together in the ‘Urban Water Logistics for a Greater Yangon’ (UWLY) program to support the Yangon Regional Government in Urban Water and Water Logistics Challenges. The UWLY program, to run for three years as part of the Dutch Government…
- Basins
Urban Water Logistics for a Greater Yangon Program (UWLY) Water Roadmap 2018-2021 Workshop
Introduction Launch of PIB program A series of activities to support Yangon Region Government (YRG) in tackling urban water and logistics challenges of Yangon have been done within nine months after the launch of Urban Water Logistics for a Greater Yangon program (UWLY). On 23rd of July, the UWLY consortium…
- Community News
An episode of Partners for International Business (PIB) – Water Logistics Updates and Tharketa Project Launch
The workshop, which is one of the roadmap activities of Partners for International Businesses (PIB) for Urban Water and Water Logistics, was held at Yangon Parliament building in January 21. The opening speech was given by the Chief Minister of Yangon Regional Government sharing the vision of becoming climate resilient…
- Basins
Final Presentation of Flood Model for Yangon has been presented to Yangon City Development Committee
Flood hazard and flood risk model for Yangon has been completed in October 2019 to assist Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) to prepare measures to make Yangon more resilient into Climate Adaptation. Funded by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), a 7-month project of consortium partners led by Royal Haskoning DHV,…
