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Rain clouds over a tank in Sri Lanka. 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 ...
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.
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.
20 gru 2023 · Dedicated to advancing the study and implementation of the ancient Cascaded Tank-Village System in Sri Lanka's dry zone. Our network focuses on promoting sustainable water management, preserving biodiversity, and enhancing resilience to natural disasters through innovative research and development.
31 mar 2020 · Various water management practices have been adopted in Sri Lanka to improve land productivity under small tanks.
In the dry zone of Sri Lanka, human‐made reservoirs (locally called tanks or wewas) have served for the collection, storage and distribution of rainfall and runoff and provided irrigation...
31 mar 2020 · Sri Lanka is well known worldwide for its ancient water civilization, and the development and evolution of irrigation systems in the country are well documented. Of them, the cascaded tank-village systems (CTVSs) are of greater significance.
