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The earliest examples of irrigation works in Sri Lanka date from about 430 BCE, during the reign of King Pandukabhaya, and were under continuous development for the next thousand years. In addition to constructing underground canals , the Sinhalese were the first to build completely artificial reservoirs to store water , referred to as tanks ...
Rain clouds over a tank in Sri Lanka. The tank cascade system (Sinhala: එල්ලංගාව, romanized: ellaṅgāva), sometimes referred to as the Pimburaththewa Tank, is an ancient irrigation system spanning the island of Sri Lanka.
In 1902 the Director of Irrigation H. T. S. Ward came up with proposals for building a new irrigation tank on the Kanakarayan Aru in northern Ceylon. [4] Work in the tank, which had a catchment area of 227 sq mi (588 km 2) and was to hold 26 ft (8 m) [a] of water, began in July 1902 [b] but was delayed by the World War I.
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.
Bodies of water of Sri Lanka (9 C, 4 P) C. Coasts of Sri Lanka (1 C) D. ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
Pages in category "Water supply and sanitation in Sri Lanka" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Mahaweli Development program (Sinhala: මහවැලි සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහන) is known as the largest multipurpose national development program in the history of Sri Lanka and is also considered the keystone of the government's development program that was initiated in 1961.
Nilavarai (Tamil: நிலாவரை, romanized: Nilāvarai) is a location in the Jaffna District, Sri Lanka.It is popular for a natural underground Water well (Called Nilavari Bottomless well) where the water never gets depleted and it serves the irrigation of the neighbouring fields. [1]