The document summarizes a meeting between the Vice President of Myanmar and the Advisory Group of the National Water Resources Committee. They discussed a combined plan of action for a national rain water harvesting campaign and community-based flood mapping campaign in response to floods in 2015. The plan includes an immediate response, medium and long term planning through 2020, with a focus on prevention of future disasters through activities like forest restoration, watershed management, and implementing integrated water resources management.
Implementation of Rainwater Harvesting System with Geomembrane Bag in Hondura...Axel Martínez Nieto
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Rainwater Harvesting Technologies in Makueni County, Kenyainventy
Rainwater harvesting has been in existence for many years and has positively impacted life, agriculture and economy. Despite these known benefits of rainwater harvesting, Makueni County's population is slowly adopting rainwater harvesting technologies. Water scarcity still remains a major constraint to life and economic development in the County. The aim of this paper is to evaluate rainwater harvesting technologies and the factors contributing to adoption of the technologies in the ASAL areas with Makueni County being the case study. The study was conducted in Wanzauni and Itetani locations in Tulimani division, Mbooni West district, Makueni County within Kenya's Eastern Region which lies within the arid and semi arid ecological zones of Kenya. A total of 160 household questionnaires were administered, focus group discussions and key informants interviews done during data collection exercise. The data was analyzed using Statistical package for social scientists (SPSS). Various rainwater harvesting technologies (RWHTs) are used within Makueni County including macro-catchment (earth dams, sand/sub-surface dams), micro-catchment (Zai pits, strip catchment, tillage, contour and semi-circular bunds) and rooftop rainwater harvesting technologies with rooftop catchment being the most commonly used technique. However, adoption of these RWHTs in Makueni County is slow irrespective of their potential to improve livelihoods. A logistic regression analysis was conducted to predict factors affecting adoption of RWHTs within 160 households in Makueni County. Some of the factors found to have statistically-significant positive effect on the adoption of RWHT are gender, literacy levels, social and economic status and technological know-how on RWHT. Ways of promoting the adoption of RWHTs such as capacity building and training, poverty alleviation through enhancement of income generation activities, enhanced formation of community groups aimed at water development activities, and improved designs incorporating mechanized technologies in favour of women and children, are recommended.
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Central America is one of the regions most affected by climate change. Its effects are reflected in more intense, recurrent and prolonged hydrometeorological phenomena located at opposite ends of the same spectrum: floods and drought. In turn, multiple factors, such as rapid environmental degradation, lack of land use planning, institutional weaknesses or lack of adequate infrastructure, make it one of the most vulnerable regions to natural hazards in the world. The Central American Dry Corridor (CSC) is one of those most affected.
To meet this challenge, GWP Central America has been involved in promoting and building capacity on Rainwater Harvesting Systems (RHS) within the framework of the Water, Climate and Development Program (WACDEP). It supports its implementation through the articulation of members and partner institutions, generating important achievements in technology transfer and gaining valuable experiences in technical and organizational aspects. It can also contribute to a better understanding of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and give interventions a gender perspective.
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This paper will focus on a review of the challenges and opportunities for Water Manage-ment and Disaster Risk Reduction in post disaster environments in lower middle Income Countries . The review will draw on grass roots experience from both Indonesia and Philippines.
The paper will outline the cost effectiveness of proactive strategies that consider disaster risk reduction as an integrated component of water management (as strongly indicated in AusAID policy for DRR.)
From Indonesia the reviewed will focus on how SurfAid International has cut into a niche corporate sector to attract funds to support social and environmental services in post dis-aster environments. The paper will look at three programs implemented in parallel by SurfAid International building health wellbeing and self-reliance of remote island communi-ties. Efforts from IWRM projects in Davao will also be consider and how they have pro-duced unintended, but welcome, outcomes in build the resilience of upland communities. Opportunities for better integration between water management and DRR will then be pre-sented.
The Symposium main theme which aims "to identify business opportunities for water sec-tor to integrate into an expanding environmental services industries" will be tackled by looking at the challenges in funding and sustaining funding for water management in post disaster environments. We will review the increasing role of the philanthropy in supporting recovery from disasters and the need to shift from responsive to proactive strategies for disaster management. The paper will present how water management and DRR strategies are both compatible and necessary to enable sustainable development, particularly in dis-aster prone SE Asia.
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Rainwater Harvesting Technologies in Makueni County, Kenyainventy
Rainwater harvesting has been in existence for many years and has positively impacted life, agriculture and economy. Despite these known benefits of rainwater harvesting, Makueni County's population is slowly adopting rainwater harvesting technologies. Water scarcity still remains a major constraint to life and economic development in the County. The aim of this paper is to evaluate rainwater harvesting technologies and the factors contributing to adoption of the technologies in the ASAL areas with Makueni County being the case study. The study was conducted in Wanzauni and Itetani locations in Tulimani division, Mbooni West district, Makueni County within Kenya's Eastern Region which lies within the arid and semi arid ecological zones of Kenya. A total of 160 household questionnaires were administered, focus group discussions and key informants interviews done during data collection exercise. The data was analyzed using Statistical package for social scientists (SPSS). Various rainwater harvesting technologies (RWHTs) are used within Makueni County including macro-catchment (earth dams, sand/sub-surface dams), micro-catchment (Zai pits, strip catchment, tillage, contour and semi-circular bunds) and rooftop rainwater harvesting technologies with rooftop catchment being the most commonly used technique. However, adoption of these RWHTs in Makueni County is slow irrespective of their potential to improve livelihoods. A logistic regression analysis was conducted to predict factors affecting adoption of RWHTs within 160 households in Makueni County. Some of the factors found to have statistically-significant positive effect on the adoption of RWHT are gender, literacy levels, social and economic status and technological know-how on RWHT. Ways of promoting the adoption of RWHTs such as capacity building and training, poverty alleviation through enhancement of income generation activities, enhanced formation of community groups aimed at water development activities, and improved designs incorporating mechanized technologies in favour of women and children, are recommended.
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Rain water harvesting & community based flood mapping plan of action
1. Submitted by Prof. Dr. Khin Ni Ni Thein, Secretary of the Advisory Group (AG)
and Member of the National Water Resources Committee (NWRC)
Meeting between the H.E. Vice President U Nyan Tun,
Chairperson of NWRC and the Advisory Group of NWRC
AG of NWRC
2nd Oct 2015 DCA Meeting Room, Yangon
National Rain Water Harvesting Campaign
&
Community-based Flood Mapping Campaign
Combined Plan of Action
13. Kale situation
extracted from SRTM 90 M
Watershed Name | Watershed Area Yazagyo dam |
386.66 sq.km Manipur River | 11550.93 sq.km Kale
Basin | 23803.90 sq.km The remaining area | 11866.31
sq.km Kale basin = (Yazagyo dam + Manipur river +
the remaining part)
Below are links for Watershed+River Networks Google
Earth KMZ files Yazagyo watershed
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByubM-
9UkY9uZng0NDZzbDFfSG8/view?usp=sharing
22. Role of Women in Plan of Action
1. Disseminating information precise and understandable
2. Capacity Building & Outreach
3. Community-based activities
28. Droughts and El NIÑO
Temporary rain failure forces people to migrate; it pushes them into the
clutches of moneylenders as crops fail and this forces them to sell their
only means of survival - their livestock.
This is the beginning of the spiral of destitution. Drought is not only
about lack of water or failing crops; it is also about non-availability of
fodder.
Rebuilding rural economies becomes difficult in this adverse cycle of
impoverishment.
Each drought destroys the rural community’s ability to cope. It makes it
weaker and more disabled to deal with the vagaries of monsoon.
Drought is not a temporary phenomenon. It is permanent and long
lasting and it eats away at the very insides of the country.
Source: CSE study
29. It is for this reason that we must have a long-term plan to deal with
monsoon failure and water shortages.
The fact is we must also do this when the monsoons are being impacted
by climate change.
In other words, we no longer have just the natural variability - and that
itself was extreme - to deal with in our monsoon.
We also have to understand how this natural variability is being
accentuated because of anthropogenic (human-made) climate change.
Source: CSE study
Droughts and El NIÑO
30. Relief, Recovery and Rehabilitation
But we also need to build Resilience
အနာဂါတ္ အတြက္ ခံႏိုင္ရည္ တည္ေဆာက္ျခင္း
31. National Rain Water Harvesting Campaign
A far-sighted and much needed initiative to secure nation’s
water wealth directed by the Chairperson of the National
Water Resources Committee (NWRC)
SCOPE
From a single rain drop
- to the forests
- to the Rivers – all water bodies
- to Villages and Cities - Urban Built Environment
- to Engineering Practices
- to Agricultural Practices
- to Industrial Practices
- to New Consumer Behavior
- to individual water ethics
- to national spirit in water saving!
Single Drops of Water
Make the Mighty
Economy!
မိုးေရစက္ကေလးမ်ား က
ေအာင္ျမင္ေသာ စီးပြါးေရး
ကို ွျဖစ္ေပၚလာေစသည္။
32. Combined Plan of Action
Proposed Budget
2 million us$ directly provided for flood and landslide victims by
means of drinking water ponds, water purification equipment, shelters,
and for transferring water saving techniques – including storage
reservoirs, ponds, tanks, etc., etc.
1 million us$ for community-based flood mapping, relevant data
collection and skill training
2 million us$ for prevention measures for future and further disasters –
aftermath disaster prevention
(Note: This can be budgeted from the Government of Myanmar’s central
floods and landslides recovery fund. For example, AIRBM Project shared
5 million us$ towards this purpose.)
33. Why do we need to spend money on
Prevention of future and further disasters?
အနာဂါတ္ အတြက္ ခံႏိုင္ရည္ တည္ေဆာက္ျခင္း
34. Time Line (5 years from 2015)
Nov 2015 – Nov 2016 Immediate activities
Nov 2016 – Nov 2017 Planning for medium and long-term
activities
Nov 2017-Nov 2020 Implementation of the medium and
long-term plans
Note: “National Water Vision aims to achieve by 2040”,
which also in line with the Myanmar National Water Policy.
35. Causes
Deforestation
Land use changes – Agricultural expansion
Urbanization
Uncontrolled mining activities
Climate Change
Groundwater over extraction
Population Growth
Life style changes
36. Remedies
Develop Water = Grow Trees and Create Watersheds
Check Dam Safety of existing Dams
Increase efficiency and capacity of existing reservoirs - desiltation
Implement IWRM
Implement the National Water Policy
Implement Combined Plan of Action
Mobilize peoples with the help of women Organizations - Example,
Women Organizations Network (WON), Water Mothers, MWEA,
MWA, MCWA, and other women associations
Mobilize the peoples of Myanmar to participate in the Rain Water
Harvesting and Community-based Flood Mapping National
Campaigns whole heartedly!
37. Methodology
Providing much needed water storage devices – develop water
for locals by tree planting and watershed creation
Providing much needed water knowledge and appropriate
technology to locals
Categorize four ecological regions across Myanmar: 1. Dry Zone,
2. Hilly Region, 3. Delta and 4. wet plain region and provide
suitable means of water storage and water development
techniques – example, rain water harvesting technologies,
underground dams, sand dams,
All 15 Administrative Regions will be participating in the
campaign
Central Campaign Committee should be established and trained
volunteers will be used for out reach and actual implementation
Partnership building with INGOs, LNGOs, Religious Leaders,
Volunteer Organizations and Local and International donors will
be forged. Myanmar should invest first 5 million USD!
38. ေရ မိခင္မ်ား အဖြဲ႕
Water Mothers Organization
Women at the Forefront of
Climate Change Adaptation in Myanmar
39. ေရ မိခင္မ်ား အဖြဲ႕ Water Mothers
အမိ်ဳးသမီးအားလံုး ပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္မႈ Inclusive Approach
Since 2012!
40. ေရ မိခင္မ်ား အဖြဲ႕
Water Mothers
အမိ်ဳးသမီးအားလံုး ပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္မႈ
Inclusive Approach
မိုးေရ စုေဆာင္း သံုးစြဲေရး လံႈ႕ေဆာ္မႈ
Rain Water Harvesting National Campaign
Since 2012
42. Please remember!
WATER is everybody’s business
Picture Source: Scientific American
ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္ရွင့္္
Thank You Very Much for Your Time and Attention