Sri Lanka's dry zone is studded with nearly 12,500 small tanks built by ancient kings to store rain water for irrigation purposes. Most of them are called minor tanks which cater to land extents less than 80 ha.. Farmers--^nder ...

Moving from one place to another has become a major concern in today's context. On one hand there is an increasing financial requirement due to cost of vehicles and escalating fuel price, and on the other hand there is ...

In a developing Country like Sri Lanka, it is very important to plan and manage its land development programmes to attract investments to develop land resources. In this context special emphasis should be given to urban ...

The need for the improvement of communication capabilities of engineers had been recognised by the engineers themselves and this effort had been built into the activities of most leading engineering institutions. The ...

Spatial data sets are developed for various purposes, with different software and by resource personnel who have varying skill levels. Though these data sets are often adequate for visualization of spatial variations, ...

Managing resources in a major irrigation scheme needs more attention on system performance in order to get optimum production out of available resources. In Sri Lanka most major irrigation schemes are managed using ...

This paper describes the application of a decision support tool for stakeholder involvement in a proposed water resource development project in the Ma Oya river basin in Sri Lanka. The decision support tool is a five-step ...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and associated modeling enables rational management" of spatially distributed resources. GIS models once assembled with a base data set often require many repeated computations either ...

The paper describes shortcomings of the general economic analysis procedure adopted in water infrastructure development projects in Sri Lanka. As a ease study an application of the'Educated Tradfl-off framework in the Ma ...

In Sri Lanka, the power generating system is predominantly based on hydropower which has provided approximately 90% of the total demand in the recent past. The government of Sri Lanka is encouraging not only the development ...