Environment_projects - The Edition

Environment Projects

Project begins to install water purifiers on fishing vessels

25 Feb 2020

Project begins to install water purifiers on fishing vessels

25 Feb 2020

Horizon Fisheries

Horizon Fisheries lowers tuna can prices over COVID-19

Horizon Fisheries Maldives lowered the price of its canned tuna, as a response to the economic impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.

21 Mar 2020

Fathmath Shaahunaz

Single-use Plastics

Single-use plastic straw import ban deferred to 2031

President Muizzu made the decision based on the Ministry of Climate Change, Environment and Energy's research, with the Presidential Decree No. 35/2025 (List of Single-Use Plastics Detrimental to the Environment) being amended by the President.

19 Sept 2026

Umar Shan Shafeeq

Amendment ratified to exempt fees on bulk plastic bag sales

23 Aug 2026

Single-use plastic violation to fine up to MVR 100,000

9 Jun 2026

Government delays ban on small plastic water bottles

2 Dec 2025

Study planned on alternatives to single-use plastics

29 Oct 2025

Drinking Water

1 in 4 people lack access to safe drinking water: UN

More than two billion people worldwide still lack access to safely-managed drinking water, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that progress towards universal coverage was moving nowhere near quickly enough.

26 Aug 2025

Environment Ministry supplies drinking water to 30 islands

14 Apr 2020

mihaaru.com