Saravanan, S.; De Silva, C.S.; Thushyanthy, M.(2021)
Jaffna peninsula is depending on groundwater for their entire water requirement. Seasonal variation of groundwater quality is a matter of serious concern for Jaffna. Groundwater quality becomes crucial ...
Jancika, G.; Thushyanthy, M.; Saravanan, S.; Gunalan, K.(2016)
Water resources are becoming increasingly scarce in many areas of the world due to development, and increased demand. Groundwater is the major water resource in the Jaffna peninsula. One of the problems related to groundwater ...
Demand for groundwater has grown rapidly as a result of population increase and economic development of the country. A wide variety of users such as small-scale irrigators, households and housing development schemes, ...
The population of the Jaffna Peninsula, in Northern Sri Lanka depends entirely on groundwater resources to meet all their water requirements. The four, main fresh water aquifers in the Jaffna Peninsula are saddled within ...
Estimation of recharge is extremely important for proper management of groundwater systems. The main purpose of this paper is to study the possibility of estimation of potential recharge in limestone aquifer as a case study ...
Heavy withdrawal of ground-water has been identified as a serious problem affecting ground-water quality, threatening agricultural productivity and thereby the income of the farmers in the Jaffna district. A two stage ...
Mutu Tantrige Osada Vishvajith Peiris; Navarethnam Gowshitharan(2022)
Urbanization-led land use changes have significant effects on urban water problems as water scarcity is a common challenge for planning of cities today. Chunnakam aquifer in Jaffna, Sri Lanka has been significantly depleted ...
Excessive pumping and over-abstraction in Jaffna Peninsula, in Sri Lanka, has decreased the ground water levels in the last years. The total area of the Peninsula is 1017 km’ and includes two internal lagoons with an area ...
Agriculture sector development to ensure food security for escalating population inevitably requires Irrigation infrastructure development. Recognizing this fact, both Government and Donors make significant investments in ...
Management of good quality ground water is a prime factor for sustenance of life. Use of nitrate-contaminated drinking water is well known risk factor for infant methemoglobinemia and various types of human cancer. There ...
Groundwater is the major natural resource in Jaffna peninsula and it is used for all purposes. Jaffna peninsula is underlain by a Miocene limestone aquifer which is the main source for hard water. Considering problems of ...
The scarcity of surface water resources in the dry season in the Kilinochchi district increases the demand for freshwater. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to delineate potential groundwater zones in Kilinochchi, ...
The complex nature of groundwater problems in South Asia, i.e., India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar, requires an in-depth analysis of the groundwater regimes in different hydrogeological frameworks ...
Villholth, K.G; Rajasooriyar, L.D.(Springer Science+Business Media B.V, 2009)
This paper gives an overview of the geophysico-chemical groundwater conditions in Sri Lanka and the associated contemporary management challenges. Groundwater is extensively used in Sri Lanka today, for agriculture, domestic ...