By Min Nyo News that water was leaking from a reservoir in Pyay District, Pegu Division, caused panic among local villagers, prompting a number of families to lock up their homes and move elsewhere...
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100 families displaced by floods in Hmawbi
More than a hundred families in Hmawbi Township, some 50 kilometres north of Rangoon, are in urgent need of food and water after being displaced from their homes which were hit by flooding. According...
Flooding leaves Sagaing villagers short of drinking water
By MIN SIT YE NAING / DVB Villages in Sagaing Division’s Kalewa Township along the Chindwin River are now experiencing a shortage of clean drinking water amid floods inundating homes and sullying...
Arakan IDP shelter suffers under water shortage
Already displaced by conflict between rebels and the Burmese army, more than 150 Arakanese villagers are now facing a water shortage as the hot season bears down on the impoverished and...
El Niño dries up communities across Burma
Hundreds of villages across Burma suffered dire water shortages last year, with pressure set to increase when El Niño hits the peak of its cycle, according to Naypyidaw’s environment experts. In...
12 die from cholera in Karen State
At least 12 people have died in a cholera outbreak in the southern Karen State town of Kyainseikgyi in the past the two months, according to the Backpack Health Worker Team. Saw De De, a medic...
Floods cause clean water shortages across Burma
Floods have receded in many disaster-hit parts of Burma in the past week, while large areas remain inundated. But officials and aid workers warn that hundreds of communities in both areas face an...
Water wells dry up in Myanaung
By KO KO KYI A number of residents in the Irrawaddy Division town of Myanaung are suffering from a shortage of fresh water as local wells dry up in the heat of dry season. “We have to buy fresh water...
Filthy water plumbed into Rangoon homes
Rangoon’s water supply stems from four reservoirs dotted around the city. A giant pipeline snakes through Kyauktada township in downtown Rangoon, plumbing water across 60 kilometres from the giant...
Celebrities, FFSS deliver relief to Hlegu flood victims
Burma’s Free Funeral Service Society (FFSS) has teamed up with several well-known celebrities to deliver relief supplies to victims of flooding in Hlegu, a town 40km north of Rangoon. Residents in...
Thousands need water after storms in Mon State
Thousands of people in eastern Burma are urgently in need of drinking water after the area’s lakes and wells were polluted by floodwater last week. Nyan Htun, a community leader in Thaton, Mon State,...
UNICEF emphasises Arakanese children over terminology
By COLIN HINSHELWOOD The primary concern for UNICEF is the plight of children in Arakan State, and not the lexicon employed to describe members of the community, says Bertrand Bainvel, the agency’s...
Meikhtila IDPs face water shortages, sanitation issues
By SHWE AUNG Some 900 Muslims from Meikhtila in central Burma who lost their homes in communal violence just over a year ago are now facing water shortages and sanitation-related diseases at the...
Hundreds of villages in central Burma suffer acute water shortage
Nearly 200 villages in central Burma are suffering from acute water shortages, according to the Civil Society Network, an NGO that has begun an emergency import of potable water to village tracts in...
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Forgotten Arakanese go thirsty
Life in Arakan state’s Maungdaw is hard on ethnic Arakanese refugees coming from Bangladesh. The people living here, resettled under a programme by the ministry of border affairs, have to face lack...
Displaced persons in desperate need of food: report
By SCOTT FOILLOTT After fleeing from the violence at the frontlines of Kachin state’s civil war, local citizens displaced along the Chinese border are finding themselves challenged to meet even basic...
Despite UN access, Kachin state remains a crisis zone
By BILL DAVIS Recently Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) investigated and reported on human rights violations and humanitarian needs in Kachin state. PHR’s report, Under Siege in Kachin State, Burma,...
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UN caginess hides a Kachin refugee crisis
By FRANCIS WADE Reports that have emerged from Kachin state in northern Burma since the region spiralled into war earlier this year have made for grisly reading: close to 40 cases of rape of ethnic...
Myanmar: 3,000 homeless as illness strikes
By NAW NOREEN Published: 1 April 2011 Nearly 100 cases of diarrhoea have been reported among survivors of last week's earthquake in eastern Burma, as aid groups put the number of people made homeless...
Water crisis hits Rangoon
By YEE MAY AUNG Dwindling water supplies to Rangoon are being exacerbated by frequent electricity cuts in the city, with some residents now unable to pump water to their apartments. Burma has in...