Water in South-Eastern Asia

  • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan for cambodia irrigation system

    CAMBODIA, 2015/09/29 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a 60-million-U.S.-dollar loan to increase agricultural production by rehabilitating, modernizing and climate- proofing irrigation systems in Cambodia's two provinces, its statement said on Tuesday. "Low agricultural productivity is a critical problem for Cambodian farmers, who depend on poorly maintained irrigation systems to grow rice," Raza Mahmood Farrukh, Water Resources Specialist in ADB's Southeast Asia Regional Department, said in the statement. "This funding will support the government's efforts to expand irrigated land, manage water resources additional efficiently, and make farmers less vulnerable to natural hazards such as floods as a consequence of climate change," he said.

  • Recycled Sewage Boosts Sydney Water Supply

    INDONESIA, 2015/02/20 Part the majority urgent concerns for the next is to have enough water to sustain a human people projected to reach 9.6 billion people by 2050.[1] The UN Millennium Development Goals recognize that access to water and sanitation is essential to economic development and poverty alleviation.[2] However, world consumption patterns indicate that we are becoming additional water profligate, and the waste that pollutes water supplies generally remains an unmitigated hazard. According to some estimates, 70 % of drinking water in India is contaminated by sewage, which is a significant impediment to equitable development that occurs in a lot of lower-gain nations.[3] The UN estimated that if water consumption trends continue unabated, 1.8 billion people will experience water shortages as any minute at this time as 2025.[4] Part solutions with great potential are the development and deployment of technologies that use wastewater as a resource, which can generate incentives for industries and municipalities to treat waste that is otherwise discharged into vital waterways.

  • Floating gardens in Cambodia

    CAMBODIA, 2015/02/19 Outcomes by a French organization to protect a vast wildlife park in Cambodia, the floating village is a charity and sustainable project Water-recycling-thanks-to-flowersCambodians often live on water or right above water in houses perched on stilts and grow gardens on rafts. Osmose and Aster, two French-Cambodian NGOs, inspired by these floating gardens, came up with the idea of building several floating platforms on the Tonlé Sap lake. Their objective? To create a sustainable and solitary economy with the help of ecology and tourism by offering a garden, a restaurant, a school, a shop with handmade objects and bathrooms equipped with a recycling compost garden. Each raft works with the help of the others. The litter from the toilets is used as fertilizer for the garden and the plants recycle the water before releasing it into the lake.

  • New Siem Reap Wastewater

    CAMBODIA, 2010/08/10 A new wastewater and sewerage treatment facility in Siem Reap should help end bouts of critical flooding in the city which serves as a base for thousands of tourists visiting the nearby, world-renowned, Angkor Wat temple complex. At a ceremony in the city today, Prime Minister Hun Sen inaugurated the Siem Reap Wastewater Management System. In attendance were government officials from Siem Reap Province, Ministry of Public Works and Transport, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Environment, and other line ministries. As well present were ADB officials along with representatives of local communities, the business and tourism sectors, and non-government organizations.
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