{"id":153341,"date":"2025-11-29T14:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153341"},"modified":"2025-11-29T14:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:46:37","slug":"flood-warning-extended-for-deduru-oya-and-lower-mahaweli-basins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/11\/29\/flood-warning-extended-for-deduru-oya-and-lower-mahaweli-basins\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood warning extended for Deduru Oya and lower Mahaweli basins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.hirunews.lk\/Data\/News_Images\/202511\/1764404716_7073277_hirunews.jpg\" alt=\"Flood+warning+extended+for+Deduru+Oya+and+lower+Mahaweli+basins\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Share Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Irrigation stated that the flood warning issued for the low-lying areas of the Deduru Oya basin is extended for an additional 48 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Irrigation also noted a high flood risk for the areas in the lower Mahaweli River basin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It advises that residents in the low-lying areas, including Dimubulagala, Thamankaduwa, Medirigiriya, Welikanda, Kinniya, Mutur, Lankapura, and Kantale, should evacuate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Share Post The Department of Irrigation stated that the flood warning issued for the low-lying areas of the Deduru Oya basin is extended for an additional 48 hours. The Department of Irrigation also noted a high flood risk for the areas in the lower Mahaweli River basin. It advises that residents in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153341","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=153341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153342,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153341\/revisions\/153342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}