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British built reservoir in ruins due to neglect [1]

Barrack plain reservoir in Nuwara Eliya constructed by the British rulers in 1885 to provide irrigational facilities to the Uva Paranagama area is in ruins due to neglect and misuse.

Publication Date: 
17/04/2009
Shelton Hettiarachchi [2]
Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) [3]
Tags:
Environment [4], Vegetables [5], Reservoirs [6], Fisheries [7], Floods [8], Waste Disposal [9], Sri Lanka [10]
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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/daily-mirror-sri-lanka
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vegetables
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/reservoirs
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fisheries
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/floods
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/waste-disposal
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sri-lanka