Water and sanitation
Water and sanitation infrastructure and facilities
Mandalay to fulfill clean water demand by 2020
Mandalay City Development Committee’s Water and Sanitation Department has kicked off a plan to supply 100 percent of the demand for drinking water to all seven townships within the district by 2020. Currently, clean potable water supply in Mandalay is only available in five townships ...
Mekong Delta stores water to prevent saline intrusion in dry season
The volume of freshwater on canals in the Mekong Delta has decreased quickly, while saline intrusion has begun in many areas. Kien Giang has 200 kilometers of coastline. The sea is only several kilometers from production areas and the province’s central areas such as Rach Gia ...
New solution for urban water drainage
A new technique that helps improve water drainage in urban areas has been proposed by a Japanese company. The technique will help clean underground pipelines without digging them up, saving energy and cost, and can be applied in emergencies. The technique has been tested at ...
New water treatment plant opens in Borikhamxay
Borikhamxay provincial authority last week opened a new water treatment plant in Thong village, Pakxan district. The plant supplies 1,000m3 of drinking water per day, equivalent to the needs of 6,600 people, with the water sourced from the Nam Ngiep River. The plant was built ...
Water supply yet to reach remote districts
Many districts around the country don’t yet have access to municipal water supplies, an official has said, adding that it is only the smaller and more remote districts that have yet to receive water supplies. Director General of the Water Department, Mr Phomma Veolavanh, told ...
Japan signs agreement to give ODA five projects in Myanmar
Japan signed an agreement in Nay Pyi Taw on January 18 to provide Official Development Assistance to Myanmar for five projects worth US$824 million, according to the Japanese Embassy in Myanmar. The ODA is set to be used for the renovation and maintenance of Yangon-Mandalay ...
US builds blood centre for southern provinces
The US Embassy to Laos has built a blood centre in Champassak province as one of several major infrastructure assistance projects completed last year, at a total cost of over US$850,000. The new blood centre will provide emergency blood services to people in the southern ...
Japanese aid package funding three JICA projects
Three projects funded by part of a recently announced US$7.7 billion Japanese aid package are under way, according to the Japanese International Cooperation Institute. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced earlier this month that his country would provide 800 billion yen in aid, loans and ...
Plan to boost children’s healthcare, education, protection
The Union government is drawing up a plan to help children survive and thrive, Ministry of Planning and Finance director general Daw Whar Whar Maung told The Myanmar Times on October 26. Specifics details were not released for the plan, which was discussed at a meeting ...
One in nine has no access to clean water
Every year during the wet season, millions of Cambodians are surrounded by water as the Mekong River floods. Yet the water is unsafe to drink, fouled by sewage and agricultural and industrial pollution. Living in villages on stilts, Cambodians bathe, fish and defecate in the flooded ...
