{"id":155587,"date":"2026-04-09T15:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=155587"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:59:57","slug":"sri-lanka-should-ban-exporting-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/04\/09\/sri-lanka-should-ban-exporting-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Should Ban Exporting Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka is facing a water crisis again. This is driven by overcrowding of cities and towns in the western province and the waste of water in the central province. There are no short-term solutions to this structural problem which is set to worsen with rising global temperatures, erratic weather patterns and further overcrowding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the first step, Sri Lanka must impose a total ban on exporting water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extracting water in large scale for export is an environmentally disastrous industry. It is not suitable for Sri Lanka. Locals\u2019 water needs must be met as a matter of priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New laws should be introduced to restrict the construction of multi-level apartments and a new tax on them should be imposed. They are notorious for high water consumption and storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natural water storage bodies should be cleaned and their banks should be protected while water pollution should carry heavy penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Availability of fresh water can no longer be taken for granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka is facing a water crisis again. This is driven by overcrowding of cities and towns in the western province and the waste of water in the central province. There are no short-term solutions to this structural problem which is set to worsen with rising global temperatures, erratic weather patterns and further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155587","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=155587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155588,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155587\/revisions\/155588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}