A 2,000-year-old Sri Lankan hydraulic system uses natural features to help harvest and store rainwater. In a rapidly warming world, it is providing a lifeline for rural communities. Each April, in the ...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has stressed on the enduring importance of Sri Lanka’s ancient cascade tank system, ...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has called for urgent action to protect and rehabilitate Sri Lanka’s irrigation tank ...
A new type of forest ecology has been discovered from the ancient kingdom of Polonnaruwa in north-central Sri Lanka, centered around the irrigation canals abandoned there more than 700 years ago. The ...
It gives me great pleasure to write a few words about the book written by Ranjan Chinthaka Mendis, entitled “An Invisible History of Early Sri Lanka”. I warmly congratulate Chinthaka Mendis, a ...