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1 Lanka Hydraulic Institute. 1988. Trincomalee current measurements & temperature & salinity profiling report on dry season survey 1 (August/September 1987) Lanka Hydraulic Institute for Black & Veatch International. v.p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 3007 Record No: H09452)
2 Sri Lanka. Ceylon Electricity Board. Generation Planning Branch. Transmission Division. 1999. Long term generation expansion plan, 1999-2013. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CEB. v.p.
Electricity supplies ; Electric power demand ; Hydroelectric schemes ; National planning ; Simulation models ; Energy ; Costs ; Fuels ; Financing ; Environmental effects ; Air pollution ; River basins / Sri Lanka / Samanalawewa / Laxapana / Mahaweli Project / Kotmale Project / Victoria Project / Maduru Oya Project / Kelani River Basin / Walawe River Basin / Gin Ganga Project / Uma Oya Project / Moragolla Project / Trincomalee / Puttalam
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 351.8722 G744 SRI Record No: H026510)
3 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Agriculture and Lands. Department of Agrarian Services. 2000. Data book for village irrigation schemes of Sri Lanka, Trincomalee District. Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Department. Water Management Division. xii, 78p.
Irrigation programs ; River basins ; Soils ; Villages ; Farmers' associations / Sri Lanka / Trincomalee
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5652 Record No: H027604)
4 Institute of Agriculture and Women in Development (IAWID) 1995. Women, transition and change: A study of the impact of conflict and displacement on women in traditional Tamil society. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. IAWID; Gala. xi, 123p.
Women ; Woman's status ; Social status ; Gender ; Income ; Social change ; Sociological analysis ; Ethnology ; History ; Colonialism ; Legislation ; Settlement ; Conflict ; Land ownership / Sri Lanka / Colombo / Batticaloa / Trincomalee
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 305.4 G744 INS Record No: H027617)
5 Paranavitana, K. D.; de Silva, R. K. 2002. Maps and plans of Dutch Ceylon: A representative collection of cartography from the Dutch period. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Central Cultural Fund; Sri Lanka - Netherlands Association. viii, 187p. (A garland of seven buds)
Maps ; Geography ; History ; Canals ; Watercourses / Sri Lanka / Colombo / Negombo / Chilaw / Puttalam / Kalpitiya / Kalutara / Galle / Matara / Jaffna / Trincomalee / Batticaloa / Mannar / Kandy
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 912 G744 PAR Record No: H031091)
6 Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA); University of Colombo. Improving Capacities for Poverty Research (IMCAP) Program; Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS) 2003. Poverty issues in Sri Lanka: Towards new empirical evidence. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CEPA; IMCAP; SLAAS. xxvii, 252p.
Poverty ; Social aspects ; Economic policy ; Rural development ; Wages ; Rice ; Conflict ; Food security ; Women / South Asia / Sri Lanka / India / Kerala / Trincomalee
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 339.46 G744 CEN Record No: H035313)
7 Souter, D.; Linden, O. (Eds.) 2005. Coral reef degradation in the Indian Ocean: Status report 2005. Kalmar, Sweden: University of Kalmar. Department of Biology & Environmental Sciences. CORDIO. 285p.
Coral reefs ; Natural disasters ; Fisheries ; Monitoring / Africa / South Africa / Yemen / Kenya / Tanzania / Seychelles / Mozambique / Asia / India / Sri Lanka / Maldives / Trincomalee / Batticaloa / Passikuda / Indian Ocean / Mannar / Bandaramulla Reef / Gulf of Mannar
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 578.7789 G000 SOU Record No: H031235)
8 Italian National Institute of Health (ISS); Sri Lanka. Ministry of Healthcare, Nutrition and Uwa Wellassa Development. 2007. Evaluation of the socio-economic and health situation in selected districts affected by the Tsunami in Sri Lanka. 328p. + CD of annexes.
Tsunamis ; Health ; Drinking water ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Households ; Surveys ; Diseases ; Population ; Income ; Housing / Sri Lanka / Galle / Matara / Kalutara / Trincomalee
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.3494 G744 ITA Record No: H043690)
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9 Pathmarajah, S.; Mowjood, M. I. M. (Eds.) 2008. Water supply, sanitation and wastewater management: progress and prospects towards clean and healthy society. Proceedings of a symposium, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 23 June 2008. Peradeniya, Sri Lanka: University of Peradeniya, Faculty of Agriculture; Peradeniya, Sri Lanka: Capacity Building Network in Integrated Water Resources Management, Sri Lanka (Cap-Net Lanka). 119p.
Water supply ; Tube wells ; Land use ; Groundwater ; Water quality ; Drinking water treatment ; Case studies ; Wetlands ; Wastewater ; Public health ; Sanitation / Sri Lanka / Jaffna Peninsula / Pussella Oya Sub Catchment / Batticaloa / Trincomalee
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 628.114 G744 PAT Record No: H043787)
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10 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Finance and Planning, Department of Census and Statistics. 2012. Bulletin of selected retail and producer prices 2008-2011. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka. Ministry of Finance and Planning, Department of Census and Statistics. 246p.
Economic aspects ; Retail prices ; Consumer prices ; Food prices ; Agricultural production ; Consumer behaviour ; Households ; Livestock products ; Rice ; Fishery products ; Surveys ; Statistics / Sri Lanka / Colombo / Gampaha / Kalutara / Kandy / Nuwara Eliya / Galle / Matara / Hambantota / Jaffna / Manna / Vavuniya / Mullativu / Killinochci / Batticaloa / Ampara / Trincomalee / Kurunegala / Puttalam / Anuradhapura / Polonnaruwa / Badulla / Moneragala / Ratnapura / Kegalla
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 310 G744 SRI Record No: H046288)
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11 De Silva, C. S. 2014. Impact of climate change on water resources management in Sri Lanka. Soba Parisara Prakashanaya, 23(1):24-28.
Climate change ; Water resources ; Water management ; Models ; Rain ; Temperature ; Soil moisture ; Runoff ; Wetlands ; Arid zones / Sri Lanka / Kandy / Nuwara Eliya / Ratnapura / Vavuniya / Anuradhapura / Batticaloa / Trincomalee / Colombo / Galle
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: P 8152 Record No: H046656)
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12 Sivayoganathan, S.; Devarajah, K.; Robuchon, G. 2003. Impact assessment of the Minor Tank Development Programme. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka: Integrated Food Security Programme (IFSP). 71p. (Working Paper 56)
Impact assessment ; Tanks ; Irrigation development ; Agriculture ; Water management ; Institution building ; Farmers organizations ; Rice ; Income ; Social impact ; Economic aspects / Sri Lanka / Trincomalee / Palaimunaikulam / Keerandankulam / Karagahawewa / Rotawewa / Paranamadawachchiwewa / Puthuvelikulam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G744 SIV Record No: H045935)
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13 De Silva, P. C. J.; Senanayake, M. S.; Samarakoon, S. M. A. 2015. Socio economic impact of chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 45p. (HARTI Research Report 185)
Socioeconomic environment ; Economic impact ; Kidney diseases ; Chronic course ; Aetiology ; Households ; Income ; Agricultural production ; Villages ; Living standards ; Drinking water ; Water quality / Sri Lanka / Anuradhapura / Polonnaruwa / Trincomalee / Moneragala / Medirigiriya / Madawachchiya / Padavi Sripura / Buttala / Thanamalwila
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 616.61 G744 SIL Record No: H047517)
14 Kafle, Kashi; Balasubramanya, Soumya; Horbulyk, Ted. 2019. Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Sri Lanka: a profile of affected districts reliant on groundwater. Science of the Total Environment, 694:133767. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133767]
Kidney diseases ; Chronic course ; Aetiology ; Groundwater ; Water use ; Drinking water ; Cooking ; Households ; Gender ; Public health ; Diabetes ; Hypertension / Sri Lanka / Mullaitivu / Vavuniya / Trincomalee / Anuradhapura / Polonnaruwa / Kurunegala / Matale / Ampara / Badulla / Monaragala
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049322)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719337088/pdfft?md5=b382fae99c90fac17e9317a17f42a220&pid=1-s2.0-S0048969719337088-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049322.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049322.pdf
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This analysis provides new estimates of chronic kidney disease (CKD) prevalence – including CKD of unknown etiology (CKDu) – across ten districts most affected by CKD in Sri Lanka, including an examination of rural households' historical reliance on groundwater consumption. A carefully designed household survey provides information on whether these households self-reported having a member in the decade prior to 2018, who had been clinically diagnosed with CKD. Households were classified according to whether or not they had used groundwater (from household wells, agro-wells or springs) as their primary source for drinking or cooking for at least five years between 1999 and 2018. More than 98% of households reported having consumed groundwater as their primary source of drinking or cooking water for at least five of those years and >15% of households reported having at least one CKD-affected member in the ten-year period up to 2018, but these numbers varied across and within districts. The reported characteristics of symptomatic individuals reveal that the incidence of CKD was significantly higher among females (62%) than males (38%). In addition to CKD, about 63% of symptomatic individuals had hypertension and about one-third of them also had diabetes. About 33% of the symptomatic individuals had neither diabetes nor hypertension, where this group most closely fits commonly used definitions of CKDu. With a survey response of over 8000 households comprising as many as 30,000 individuals, these data illustrate the scale of CKD in the most-affected districts of Sri Lanka on an aggregate basis as well as revealing differences across districts and at the sub-district level.
15 Balasubramanya, Soumya; Stifel, David; Horbulyk, Ted; Kafle, Kashi. 2020. Chronic kidney disease and household behaviors in Sri Lanka: historical choices of drinking water and agrochemical use. Economics and Human Biology, 37:100862. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100862]
Kidney diseases ; Chronic course ; Drinking water treatment ; Groundwater ; Public health ; Risk factors ; Households ; Behaviour ; Agricultural practices ; Agrochemicals ; Farmland ; Water supply ; Wells ; Water purification ; Reverse osmosis ; Socioeconomic environment ; Rural areas ; Models / Sri Lanka / Mullaitivu / Vavuniya / Trincomalee / Anuradhapura / Polonnaruwa / Kurunegala / Matale / Ampara / Badulla / Monaragala
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049541)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X19302576/pdfft?md5=493e1025b9a9e466cbbde1bcad6be90c&pid=1-s2.0-S1570677X19302576-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049541.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049541.pdf
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This paper examines whether there are systematic differences in the historical behaviors of households that are affected and unaffected by chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Sri Lanka pertaining to their water source choices, water treatment practices, and agrochemical use. This analysis is motivated by the Sri Lankan government’s largest policy response to this epidemic – to encourage communities to switch from untreated well water to publicly provided alternatives. We use recall methods to elicit information on the drinking water source and treatment choices of households over an 18-year period from 2000– 2017. Our analysis is based on a survey of 1497 rural ground-water dependent households in the most CKD-affected areas of the 10 districts of Sri Lanka with the highest prevalence of CKD. Our main findings are that (a) households that have ever used a pump to extract (typically deep) drinking water from a household well are more likely to be affected by CKD; (b) we fail to find a relationship between disease status and households’ use of buckets to extract (typically shallow) groundwater from their wells; and (c) those who have ever treated their shallow well water by boiling it are less likely to be affected by CKD. We also find that a greater share of CKD affected households historically used agrochemicals, used wells that were geographically removed from surface water sources, and displayed lower proxies of wealth. The implications of these findings are fourfold. First, since the systematic differences in the historical patterns of water sources and treatments used by CKD affected and non-affected households are modest, the sources of water and the treatment practices themselves may not be the sole risk factors in developing CKD. Second, although we find a negative association between boiling water and the probability of CKD, it is not obvious that a public policy campaign to promote boiling water is an appropriate response. Third, the hydrochemistry of deep and shallow well water needs to be better understood in order to shed light on the positive relationship between deep well water and disease status, and on why boiling shallow but not deep well water is associated with a lower probability of CKD. Fourth, there is a need for a deeper understanding of other risk factors and of the efficacy of preventative programs that provide alternative sources of household drinking water.
16 Jayathilake, Nilanthi; Kumara, I. U.; Fernando, Sudarshana. 2020. Solid and liquid waste management and resource recovery in Sri Lanka: a 20 city analysis. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 83p.
Waste management ; Solid wastes ; Liquid wastes ; Resource recovery ; Reuse ; Resource management ; Urban areas ; Urban wastes ; Municipal wastewater ; Treatment plants ; Waste disposal ; Sewerage ; Septic tanks ; Faecal sludge ; Latrines ; Recycling ; Desludging ; Composting ; Waste landfills ; Water supply ; Municipal authorities ; Local authorities ; Households ; Sanitation ; Development projects / Sri Lanka / Anuradhapura / Badulla / Batticaloa / Colombo / Galle / Jaffna / Kaluthara / Kandy / Kilinochchi / Kurunegala / Mannar / Matale / Matara / Mullaithivu / Negombo / Nuwara Eliya / Puttalam / Ratnapura / Trincomalee / Vauniya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050009)
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17 Horbulyk, Theodore; Kafle, Kashi; Balasubramanya, Soumya. 2021. Community response to the provision of alternative water supplies: a focus on chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) in rural Sri Lanka. Water International, 46(1):37-58. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2020.1868124]
Kidney diseases ; Chronic course ; Aetiology ; Water supply ; Drinking water ; Water use ; Reverse osmosis ; Rainwater ; Wells ; Rural communities ; Households ; Risk assessment ; Safety ; Decision making ; Villages ; Institutions ; Nongovernmental organizations / Sri Lanka / Mullaitivu / Vavuniya / Trincomalee / Anuradhapura / Polonnaruwa / Kurunegala / Matale / Ampara / Badulla / Monaragala
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050264)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02508060.2020.1868124?needAccess=true
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050264.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050264.pdf
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Until recently, households in the most chronic kidney disease-affected rural areas of Sri Lanka used untreated groundwater for drinking and cooking, but, by 2018, that share was only 35%. About 50% of households consume water treated by reverse osmosis; others rely on piped water, water delivery by tanker and rainwater harvesting. Based on a new and representative survey of 1500 households, households’ propensities to treat drinking water and adopt improved water sources are shown to be associated with their perceptions of water safety and trust in the institutions that provide alternatives to untreated well water.
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