{"id":91819,"date":"2019-07-31T15:39:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T22:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91819"},"modified":"2019-07-31T15:39:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T22:39:31","slug":"we-keep-making-blunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/31\/we-keep-making-blunders\/","title":{"rendered":"We keep making blunders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>That day I was passing by the SLLRDC office( now letter R\u201d dropped) to give a better definition to Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation hitherto earlier called Low Lying Development Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I fully agree with their thinking as Reclamation is not a very environmentally friendly and good name to be linked to this organization which has done omen service to the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hail there forward-thinking <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I headed the same outfit in the nineties under RP when \u00a0SLLRDC became a fearful name to many land developers. I faced death threats by politically backed land developers and yet I stood my grounds (on marshy land) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I saw that day in front of the office of SLLDC was one of the stupidest actions taken by Megapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I heard that a company deployed \u00a0by the ministry of Megapolis to install a flood gate in the canal <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Very stupid idea to install the gate in this &nbsp;Location\nspending millions..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SLLDC surely wants to wash their hands off from this stupidity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Megapolis with world bank funding wants to pump water from the Kelani River during drought to get rid of polluted water, and pump rainwater out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any sensible person will understand that during drought salt water will flow upstream along the Kelani River until Ambatale. Any more water pumped out from Kelani mother river to Colombo will cause enormous damage to Colombo ecosystem <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not intend to elaborate further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sarath Obeysekera That day I was passing by the SLLRDC office( now letter R\u201d dropped) to give a better definition to Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation hitherto earlier called Low Lying Development Board. I fully agree with their thinking as Reclamation is not a very environmentally friendly and good name to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91819","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=91819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}