{"id":153496,"date":"2025-12-06T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153496"},"modified":"2025-12-06T16:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:13:15","slug":"nwsdb-estimates-rs-5-billion-in-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/06\/nwsdb-estimates-rs-5-billion-in-damages\/","title":{"rendered":"NWSDB estimates Rs. 5 billion in damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Chairman of the National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB), Chandana Bandara, announced that the recent disaster caused nearly Rs. 5 billion in damage to the water supply infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The worst damage occurred at the Katugastota pumping station near the Mahaweli River in Kandy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, part of the pumping station in the Nillambe area of Kandy is affected by a landslide.<br><br>Serious damage also occurred at the pumping station near the Mahaweli River in Mahiyanganaya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disaster impacted 156 water pumping stations in total. Of these, 148 are restored and operational, with efforts underway to restart the remaining eight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chairman expects the Mahiyangana pumping station, in particular, to be operational by this evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Army, Navy, and NWSDB officials are making strenuous efforts to restore the Nillambe pumping station.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the restoration of the Nillambe pumping station takes time, a temporary water supply system will be implemented for the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Restoration work on three pumping stations in the Hemmathagama and Matale districts will also likely be completed quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bandara further stated that approximately 90% of the areas where the water supply was disrupted by the emergency disaster situation now have restored water supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News The Chairman of the National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB), Chandana Bandara, announced that the recent disaster caused nearly Rs. 5 billion in damage to the water supply infrastructure. The worst damage occurred at the Katugastota pumping station near the Mahaweli River in Kandy.&nbsp; Additionally, part of the pumping station in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153496","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=153496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153497,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153496\/revisions\/153497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}