Floods and droughts in Sri Lanka: A sustainable solution - Opinion

"It seems that in the future, this disparity in the availability of water within the country would become worse; wet-zone receiving more rain and the dry-zone receiving less rain, than what is received currently. The obvious solution is to develop some means to take the surplus water from the wet-zone to the water-deficit dry-zone," writes Dr. Janaka Ratnasiri in his opinion piece in The Island. Mr Ratnasiri also gives an overview of the history and ongoing projects on water management and climate change adaptation measures in Sri Lanka.