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 contamination derived from human activities including farming is a serious problem threatening water security in the Northern Province (NP) of Sri Lanka. Gathering all existing research knowledge on the province’s ...
Groundwater is a vital resource under threat in island communities. Karainagar, a 22km2 island, is one of seven islands off the coast of Jaffna in Northern Sri Lanka, with its population of just about 11,000 persons, ...
set of policy options to regulate non point source pollution from agriculture in Jaffna district. Studies are oriented towards comparing the effects of input oriented measures (Fertilizer tax) and policy measures directed ...
Sri Lanka has an urban population of 22% of the national population living in 1% of its land area in 1985. Coastal lands in the wet zone are thickly populated and demand for water supply is increasing for pipe-borne safe ...
Unlike other natural resources, water is a unique resource, which renews itself. It is due to its constant circulation in the ocean-atmosphere-earth-ocean system. No matter how much water is consumed in daily life, its ...
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 ...
Christy Nilani, L.; Thushyanthy, M.; Sivakumar, S.(2010)
The study was conducted with the objective of estimating groundwater saving, irrigation intervals and duration for cabbage, a field trial was carried out with sprinkler irrigation to see the performance of yield. The field ...
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 ...
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 ...
The need for water is universal. It is present everywhere, and without water, life, as we know it, will simply cease to exist. Water is constantly in motion, passing from one state to another, and from one location to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...