{"id":153606,"date":"2025-12-10T17:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153606"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:31:03","slug":"unauthorised-filling-of-muthurajawela-led-to-floods-in-gampaha-town-cardinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/10\/unauthorised-filling-of-muthurajawela-led-to-floods-in-gampaha-town-cardinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Unauthorised filling of Muthurajawela led to floods in Gampaha town: Cardinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Dec. 10 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Unauthorised filling of the Muthurajawela wetlands and pollution led to the flooding of Gampaha town during the&nbsp; recent floods, Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardinal Ranjith, who spoke during a service held at St. Joseph&#8217;s Church Grandpass in remembrance of the disaster victims, urged the government to stop unauthorised filling of the Muthurajawela wetlands.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have never seen Gampaha town going under water in the past. The town went under water this time as a result of the unauthorised filling of the Muthrajawela,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec. 10 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Unauthorised filling of the Muthurajawela wetlands and pollution led to the flooding of Gampaha town during the&nbsp; recent floods, Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said today.&nbsp; Cardinal Ranjith, who spoke during a service held at St. Joseph&#8217;s Church Grandpass in remembrance of the disaster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153606","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=153606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153607,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153606\/revisions\/153607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}