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Tank cascade system. Rain clouds over a tank in Sri Lanka. The tank cascade system ( Sinhala: එල්ලංගාව, romanized: ellangāva) is an ancient Sri Lankan irrigation system. It is a network of thousands of small tanks ( Sinhala: වැව, romanized: wewa) draining to large reservoirs that store rainwater and surface runoff for ...
Water storage. Water storage is a broad term referring to storage of both potable water for consumption, and non potable water for use in agriculture. In both developing countries and some developed countries found in tropical climates, there is a need to store potable drinking water during the dry season. In agriculture water storage, water is ...
The 2022 Sri Lankan protests, commonly known as Aragalaya ( Sinhala: අරගලය, lit. 'The Struggle'), were a series of mass protests that began in March 2022 against the government of Sri Lanka. The government was heavily criticized for mismanaging the Sri Lankan economy, which led to a subsequent economic crisis involving severe ...
Sri Lanka captain Charith Asalanka won a third successive toss and elected to bat in the third and final one-day international against India on Wednesday. Sri Lanka leads the series 1-0. There was ...
Sri Lanka's parliament passed a new telecommunications bill last month, which amended the law for the first time in 28 years and paved the way for Starlink Lanka to enter the country.
The Daily News is an English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka. It is now published by the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Lake House), a government-owned corporation . The newspaper commenced publishing on 3 January 1918. [ 1 ]
Sri Lanka and the United States established diplomatic relations on 23 October 1948. In a 2005 BBC World Service Poll, 30% of Sri Lankans view American influence positively, with 20% expressing a negative view. [ 1] According to the 2012 U.S. Global Leadership Report, 14% of Sri Lankans approve of U.S. leadership, with 37% disapproving and 49% ...
The water largely contributed to irrigation but cost four to ten times more than the crops it produced were worth. [103] In 1912, the Union of South Africa created an irrigation department and began investing in water storage infrastructure and irrigation. The government used irrigation and dam-building to further social goals like poverty ...