{"id":137418,"date":"2023-10-02T15:51:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T22:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=137418"},"modified":"2023-10-02T15:51:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T22:51:36","slug":"the-neglect-of-minor-irrigation-tanks-in-the-dry-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/10\/02\/the-neglect-of-minor-irrigation-tanks-in-the-dry-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Neglect of Minor Irrigation Tanks in the Dry Zone."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Garvin Karunaratne\u00a0 former GA Matara\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><br>Despite my repeated writings\u00a0\u00a0highlighting what has happened to the Dry Zone tanks, the life blood of the people, no action has been taken and today- 2023, there is no proper method of distributing water.\u00a0<br>This is a matter of great urgency that needs the attention of the Ministry of Agriculture. In entire Sri Lanka today the tanks are neglected and before long we will face starvation, as it is the Dry Zone that is our granary. May this plea reach the ears of our leaders<br><br>May my publication in 2017 get some attention from the Government authorities.\u00a0<br><br>Garvin Karunaratne<br>former GA Matara\u00a0<br>2\/10\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lankaweb-com wp-block-embed-lankaweb-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"GozebJuN30\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/31\/the-sad-plight-of-the-dry-zone-irrigation-tanks-that-were-the-life-blood-of-our-ancient-civilization\/\">The Sad Plight of the Dry Zone Irrigation Tanks that were the life blood of our ancient civilization.<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The Sad Plight of the Dry Zone Irrigation Tanks that were the life blood of our ancient civilization.&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/31\/the-sad-plight-of-the-dry-zone-irrigation-tanks-that-were-the-life-blood-of-our-ancient-civilization\/embed\/#?secret=EdATY4fYy7#?secret=GozebJuN30\" data-secret=\"GozebJuN30\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garvin Karunaratne\u00a0 former GA Matara\u00a0 Despite my repeated writings\u00a0\u00a0highlighting what has happened to the Dry Zone tanks, the life blood of the people, no action has been taken and today- 2023, there is no proper method of distributing water.\u00a0This is a matter of great urgency that needs the attention of the Ministry of Agriculture. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-garvin-karunaratne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}