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or thousands of years, Sri Lanka’s fresh water resources have been one of our greatest treasures. Unfortunately, this blessing and nature’s free gift to us is often taken for granted and in recent decades we have seen waste, mismanagement and even the pollution of ground water resources mainly in the rice bowl of the North Central Province, where thousands of farmer families are known to be suffering from a deadly kidney disease with some 20,000 deaths reported in recent years. One of our greatest kings, Parakrama Bahu pleaded that not a single drop of rainwater must be allowed to go waste and must be made use of. Thus with the marvels of ancient engineering he built the famous Parakrama Samudraya and thousands of wewas to conserve water. Tragically most of these wewas have been allowed to go into the waste bins of history while government leaders in recent decades have asked World Bank experts to help us with irrigation management forgetting that these western experts were probably still on trees when our engineers thousands of years ago designed the Parakarama Samudraya and the wewas.
will be too late when we realize we have been stripped and are paupers. The TNCs are doing this in vital areas such as healthcare, agriculture, food and nutrition. Now they have turned their economic drones on our fresh water resources. Recently the Wyamba Provincial Council quietly passed a resolution to work out new plans for the management of water resources. Civic action groups believe the undercurrents of this move may be the first step towards the privatization of Sri Lanka’s precious fresh water resources, though the Rajapaksa government has repeatedly pledged it would not sell our fresh water resources to TNCs.
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