Search results
The tank cascade system (Sinhala: එල්ලංගාව, romanized: ellaṅgāva) is an ancient irrigation system spanning the island of Sri Lanka. It is a network of thousands of small irrigation tanks (Sinhala: වැව, romanized: wewa) draining to large reservoirs that store rainwater and surface runoff for later use.
Director: Marta Baraibar 2D and 3D Animations: Alex Petrovsky Over 2400 years ago, in Sri Lanka, a tiny country near the southern tip of India, flourished in...
This country, at the core of the south east monsoon, has 80% of its territory covered by a dry zone prone to water scarcity. Its ancient kings built a sophisticated network of small tanks connected by canals to large reservoirs to collect and redistribute every single drop of rain the land received.
Sri Lanka’s tank cascades (a network of small tanks that store surface water) are one of the country’s greatest legacies from a remarkable hydraulic civilization, built by its ancient kings as a solution to the water scarcity in the country’s dry zone, over 2,000 years ago.
Tanks and Reservoirs of Sri Lanka. Scale : 250k. ArcGIS Projected Coordinate System : SLD-Kandawala.prj. COD. 500+ Downloads. This dataset updates: Never. Use group message to communicate and collaborate with other members of your organisation.
Resource-use efficiency and environmental sustainability in the village tank cascade systems in the dry zone of Sri Lanka: An assessment using a bio-economic model. Introduction Village tank...
Download and use 1,525+ Sri lanka tanks stock videos for free. Thousands of new 4k videos every day Completely Free to Use High-quality HD videos and clips from Pexels
