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

2. Floods 2015 July and August

3. Floods 2015 July and August

4. Floods 2015 July and August

5. Floods 2015 July and August

6. Floods 2015 July and August

7. Floods 2015 July and August

8. Floods 2015 July and August

9. Floods 2015 July and August

10. Floods 2015 July and August

11. Elevation, longitudinal Profile

12. Flood Map

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

18. Landslides
 ရာဇျဂိဳလ္ဆည္အထက္ တီြလြီေခ်ာင္းဖ်ားရိွ ေျမျပိဳေရကန္
(စက္တင္ဘာလ ၁၆ရက္၊ ၂၀၁၅) အေသးစိတ္ေျမပံုရိွ
 အျမင့္ေပ ၄၀၀၀ ရိွေခ်ာင္းထဲသို႕ ျပိဳက်သည္႕ မ်က္ႏွာျပင္
ဧရိယာမ်ားမွာ ဧက ၁၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ရိွ၊ ေရကန္ ၅ခု၊ ေရကန္
အၾကီးမွာ ေပ ၃၅၀၀ ေက်ာ္ရိွ
 https://www.facebook.com/messages/conversation-
928020880602408
 Floods 2015 Close Group - တာ၀န္သိ ျမန္မာ GIS RS
ပညာရွင္မ်ား ဦးေဆာင္သည့္အဖဲြ႕မွ ေလ႕လာထားခ်က္အရ
 ေခ်ာင္းေဟာင္းမ်ားပိတ္ ၍ ေခ်ာင္းသစ္မ်ား ေပၚလာေၾကာင္း
ေတြ႕ရိွရပါသည္။

19. Min Bu District

20. Three Components in Disaster Management
Public Assistance
Mutual
Support
Self Help
Public
Assistance
12 Regions out of 15 were being affected!

21. National Flood Hazard Mapping Campaign

22. Role of Women in Plan of Action
1. Disseminating information precise and understandable
2. Capacity Building & Outreach
3. Community-based activities

23. Capacity Building Plan for
Community-based FHM Activity

24. Creating Enabling Environment
in line with the National Water Policy

25. Relationships between Administration and Organizations

26. Students Drawing the Green Village Plan

27. Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will
guide us (the world) to achieve sustainability

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

41. Household Water Purification System Caretaker
Training for Water Mothers – Bago Region

42. Please remember!
WATER is everybody’s business

Picture Source: Scientific American
ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္ရွင့္္
Thank You Very Much for Your Time and Attention