Groundwater provides nearly 100 % of the water supplies in some districts of Sri Lanka and is a major source of domestic water in all other districts. However, the resource remains largely neglected and invisible to society and policymakers. Groundwater offers the advantage of being a more reliab...
Aheeyar, Mohamed M.M.
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Manthrithilake, Herath
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Pathmarajah, S.
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Makin, Ian W.
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[Groundwater development through sprinkler irrigation: consequences of a lack of a governance structure in Kalpitiya, Sri Lanka]
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Groundwater development through sprinkler irrigation: consequences of a lack of a governance structure in Kalpitiya, Sri Lanka
Silva, Sanjiv de
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Aheeyar, Mohamed M.M.
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Arulingam, Indika
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Manthrithilake, Herath
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[The new water: opportunities and challenges of the rise to prominence of groundwater in Sri Lanka in the face of socioeconomic and climatic change]
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The new water: opportunities and challenges of the rise to prominence of groundwater in Sri Lanka in the face of socioeconomic and climatic change
Achieving water security has emerged as a major objective in Africa, yet an analytical or diagnostic framework for assessing water security in African countries is not known to exist. This paper applies one key dimension of the 2016 Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Asian Water Development Outlook (...
Holmatov, Bunyod
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Lautze, Jonathan
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Manthrithilake, Herath
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Makin, Ian
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[Water security for productive economies: applying an assessment framework in southern Africa]
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Water security for productive economies: applying an assessment framework in southern Africa
This study looks at the groundwater issues in the dry zone of Sri Lanka and shows how the use of remote sensing with high-resolution images can help in groundwater management. A new approach is developed for automatic extraction of the location of agrowells using high-spatial-resolution satellite...
Sood, Aditya
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Manthrithilake, Herath
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Siddiqui, Salman
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Rajah, Ameer
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Pathmarajah, S.
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[Managing shallow aquifers in the dry zone of Sri Lanka]
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Managing shallow aquifers in the dry zone of Sri Lanka