Except in Jaffna peninsula groundwater has never been used on a large scale in the past. From late 1970's, various government and non-government agencies have been involved in groundwater development. In 1989 with a subsidy ...

Sri Lanka is a tropical nation, is highly vulnerable to impacts of climate change. As a small in the Indian Ocean, the coastal region of the Sri Lanka is susceptible to change in sea level. The impact of climate change are ...

The growth of population in time span leads to very high and uncontrolled extraction of ground water in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. This leads the water table to go very low in non-monsoon seasons. This gives the poor ...

Newspapers remain as an effective medium for circulating information among the public in the North of Sri Lanka and have the potential to influence public opinion and people’s behavior regarding sustainable use of groundwater. ...

Groundwater is categorized as a common pool resource and is characterized by exclusion and substractbility. Given the nature of groundwater, user exclusion is an extremely difficult task. The cost of exclusion measures ...

Water for Agriculture sector in Sri Lanka is facing challenges through increased demands by other sectors and also confronts the issues of a market economy and international and regional trade agreements that are exerting ...

Water is the least regulated natural resource in the world. Water security implies accessibility to cheap and clean water to achieve acceptable standards of food and goods production, sanitation and health, which in turn ...