Sri Lanka Waterworld Ancient Irrigation Network
The Lifeline of the nation
During the Rajapakse’s reign, Sri Lanka, has been self-sufficient in rice to such an extent that even during the last global recessions in 2008–09, it failed to cause even a tremor in the island. If not for lifeline to the nation, the ‘Water World’, the greatest wealth of the nation, the great network of ancient rainwater reservoirs, we too would have suffered, if not precisely like an East African country, at least like Cambodia during the Vietnam war. Now, the descendents of the marauding destroyers of great kingdoms of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, who have no reverence to our Sinhalese heritage, i.e. Reservoir, Buddhist Temple & Stupa, instead of supporting the paddy cultivation in the agricultural nation calls for importing rice from India.
The Lifeline of the nation
During the Rajapakse’s reign, Sri Lanka, has been self-sufficient in rice to such an extent that even during the last global recessions in 2008–09, it failed to cause even a tremor in the island. If not for lifeline to the nation, the ‘Water World’, the greatest wealth of the nation, the great network of ancient rainwater reservoirs, we too would have suffered, if not precisely like an East African country, at least like Cambodia during the Vietnam war. Now, the descendents of the marauding destroyers of great kingdoms of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, who have no reverence to our Sinhalese heritage, i.e. Reservoir, Buddhist Temple & Stupa, instead of supporting the paddy cultivation in the agricultural nation calls for importing rice from India.
