A household in Mawlawmyine's Lamuttan quarter uses bowls and buckets to store water. (Naw Betty Han | Frontier)
A household in Mawlawmyine's Lamuttan quarter uses bowls and buckets to store water. (Naw Betty Han | Frontier)

Fixing Mawlamyine’s water woes

Most residents in the country’s fifth-largest city continue to rely on poor-quality water sources in the absence of a reliable government distribution system, but work is already underway on a major upgrade with international support.

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