The correlations are not that strong when these tanks were restored as now modern methods of designing a spill is available.doi:10.4038/ENGINEER.V38I3.7219O. A. GunawardenaR. P. D. SilvaThe Institution of Engineers, Sri LankaEngineer: Journal of the Institution of Engineers...
Small tanks, the ancient man-made rain water storage systems, support the pheasant life and agriculture of the dry zone of Sri Lanka. Many small tanks were abandoned with time due to various reasons. Such tanks, rehabilitated in the rece... NKK Welgama,WADP Wanigasundera - 《World Academy...
Man made reservoirs (tanks) in Sri Lanka are found throughout the country representing nearly all the country's surface water (2% of the total land surface... C Yanesroca - 《International Journal of Climatology》 被引量: 76发表: 2001年 Integrated river basin management in the Conchos River...
One of the best specimen of bathing tanks or pools in ancient Sri Lanka is the pair of pools known as Kuttam Pokuna.,站酷海洛,一站式正版视觉内容平台,站酷旗下品牌.授权内容包含正版商业图片、艺术插画、矢量、视频、音乐素材、字体等,已先后为阿里巴巴、京东、亚
(2002) have estimated that 7202 village tanks are functioning in Sri Lanka out of the total of 15,499 tanks. A village tank in Sri Lanka consists of several components and land uses and each of them provides a unique function for the system stability including; control water flow, purify ...
Sri Lanka HolidaysAnuradhapura. King Aggabodhi 1 and King Aggaboi 11 are henceforth credited with expansion of the Alahara-Minnaeriya-Kaudulla scheme of King Mahasena to include the new tanks, Kantale and Gritale. The expanded longer canal resulted in the requirment of additional supply of ...
of the irrigation systems that were the reason for Anuradhapura’s rise as a centre of civilization. As the overview map of the city found above illustrates, the city itself was surrounded by man-made water reservoirs (tanks orwawas) that allowed the dry plains to produce two crops a year...
man‐made tanksnutrientsThe tank cascade system (TCS) in Sri Lanka is one of the most advanced water-conveyance mechanisms among the medieval hydraulic civilizations in the world. In this study, temporal and spatial variations of the hydrogeochemistry of a small cascade system were investigated. A...
The spatial and temporal distribution of the records and the qualitative information they contain reflect the evolution of the water management and governance systems in Sri Lanka. Vast multitudes of small tanks were developed and managed by the local communities. Due to the sustainable management ...
Rural settlements were centred around small reservoirs (called tanks after the Portuguese Tanqu茅) and the village came to be synonymous (in Sinhalese) with tank. The high density of reservoirs and adjacent ricefields indicate human densities which have been estimated at as high as 70 million. ...