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  2. Environmental issues in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Air pollution is a problem in Sri Lanka's cities and it is mostly caused by vehicles. The number of motor vehicles almost tripled during the 1990s which also led to an increase in traffic jams . The use of old vehicles and poor quality gas intensify negative consequences.

  3. List of environmental laws by country - Wikipedia

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    Air Quality Law (Limit Values for Benzene and Carbon Monoxide in Ambient Air) Regulations P.I. 516/2002 Air Quality (Ozone in Ambient Air) Regulations P.I. 194/2004 Control of Atmospheric Pollution (Control of Volatile Organic Compounds Emissions Resulting from the Storage of Petrol and its Distribution from Terminals to Service Stations ...

  4. Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources Management

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    Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 23 April 2010 - 9 January 2015 Mahinda Rajapaksa: Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources Management Duminda Dissanayake: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 12 January 2015 - 22 March 2015 Maithripala Sirisena: Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources Management Gamini Vijith Vijithamuni Soysa: Sri Lanka Freedom Party

  5. Reflective surfaces (climate engineering) - Wikipedia

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    A perfect roof would absorb no heat in the summer and lose no heat in the winter. To do this it would need a very high SRI to eliminate all radiative heat gains in summer and losses in winter. High SRI roofs act as a radiant barrier, providing a thermos-bottle effect. High emissivity cool roofs carry a climate penalty due to winter radiative ...

  6. National Water Supply and Drainage Board - Wikipedia

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    The National Water Supply and Drainage Board (commonly abbreviated as NWSDB) is the National Organization responsible for the provision of safe drinking water and facilitating the provision of sanitation to the people in Sri Lanka. The organization had its beginning as a subdepartment under the Public Works Department for water supply and drainage.

  7. Environmental law - Wikipedia

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    Water quality laws govern the protection of water resources for human health and the environment. Water quality laws are legal standards or requirements governing water quality, that is, the concentrations of water pollutants in some regulated volume of water. Such standards are generally expressed as levels of a specific water pollutants ...

  8. How California eco-bureaucrats halted a Pacific Palisades ...

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    The goal of the project was to improve fire safety for the Pacific Palisades area by replacing the wooden poles with steel, widening fire-access lanes in the area, and installing wind- and fire ...

  9. Water quality law - Wikipedia

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    Water quality laws govern the protection of water resources for human health and the environment. Water quality laws are legal standards or requirements governing water quality, that is, the concentrations of water pollutants in some regulated volume of water. Such standards are generally expressed as levels of a specific water pollutants ...

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