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1 Dale, R. 1992. Organization of regional development work. Ratmalana, Sri Lanka: Sarvodaya. xxiv, 549p.
Regional development ; Regional planning ; Developing countries ; Rural development ; Development projects ; Case studies ; Development plans ; Community development ; Public administration ; Development aid ; Decision making ; Monitoring ; History ; Settlement ; Irrigation programs ; Expenditure ; Crops ; Wells ; Sustainability / Sri Lanka / Hambantota / Matara / Matale / Puttalam
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.9 G744 DAL Record No: H019650)
2 Karunaratne, S. H. P. P.; Amerasinghe, P. E. 1999. Insecticide resistance in Anopheline vectors of Malaria. The Island, 28 October:15.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5392 Record No: H025676)
3 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Agriculture and Lands. Department of Agrarian Services. 2000. Data book for village irrigation schemes of Sri Lanka, Matale District. Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Department. Water Management Division. xii, 122p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5644 Record No: H027596)
4 Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) 2000. The study for the potential realization of irrigated agriculture in the dry and intermediate zones of Sri Lanka. Vol.I, Main reoprt. Report of a study conducted by JICA, presented to the Ministry of Lands, Irrigation and Mahaweli Development, Sri Lanka. v.p.
Irrigation programs ; Planning ; Rehabilitation ; Canals ; Irrigation tanks ; Farmers associations ; Constraints ; Income generation ; Water distribution ; Agricultural credit ; Farm economics ; Economic evaluation ; Surveying / Sri Lanka / Anuradhapura / Kurunegala / Puttalam / Matale / Mahananneriya Minor Scheme
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7.8 G744 JAP Record No: H040437)
5 Hitinayake, H. M.G. S. B. 2005. Causes and issues related to conservation of catchments of micro tanks in the dry and intermediate zones of Sri Lanka. In Galagedara, L. W. (Ed.). Water resources research in Sri Lanka: Symposium Proceedings of the Water Professional’s Day 2005. Peradeniya, Sri Lanka: PGIA. pp.69-84.
Tanks ; Siltation ; Villages ; Land tenure ; Catchment areas ; Reclamation ; Traditional farming / Sri Lanka / Moneragala / Kurunegala / Matale
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G744 GAL Record No: H040707)
6 Bandara, K. R. N. 2006. Development issues, options and alternatives of water resources management in Kala Oya Basin. In Dayawansa, N. D. K. (Ed.). Water resources research in Sri Lanka: symposium proceedings of the Water Professional’s Day 2006, Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 1 October 2006. Peradeniya, Sri Lanka: University of Peradeniya. Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture (PGIA). pp.107-116.
River basin management ; Tanks ; Irrigation programs ; Canals ; Water demand ; Domestic water ; Irrigation water ; Water transfer / Sri Lanka / Kala Oya Basin / Anuradhapura / Kurunegala / Matale / Puttalam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G744 DAY Record No: H040727)
7 Gamage, D.; Damayanthi, M. K. N. 2012. Major dimensions of contemporary smallholder agriculture sector in Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 88p. (HARTI Research Report 146)
Smallholders ; Agricultural development ; Population ; Censuses ; Socioeconomic environment ; Education ; Employment ; Unemployment ; Household income ; Statistical analysis ; Land tenure ; Land use ; Crop production ; Rice ; Production costs ; Farmers ; Farm income ; Farm equipment ; Diversification ; Research / Sri Lanka / Polonnaruwa / Matale / Anuradhapura / Ampara / Galle / Matara / Puttalam / Hambantota / Kurunegala
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630 G744 GAM Record No: H046394)
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8 Chandrasiri, J. K. M. D.; Bamunuarachchi, B. A. D. S. 2013. Cultivation credit for chillies, big onions and potatoes: an assessment of credit sources and their issues. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 49p. (HARTI Research Report 152)
Agricultural credit ; Financing ; Credit policies ; Cooperative banks ; Cropping patterns ; Field crops ; Potatoes ; Chillies ; Onions ; Smallholders ; Socioeconomic environment ; Agricultural manpower ; Farm income / Sri Lanka / Nuwara Eliya / Badulla / Matale / Anuradhapura / Puttalam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 332.71 G744 CHA Record No: H046395)
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9 Aheeyar, M. M. M.; Bandara, M. A. C. S.; Padmajani, M. T. 2012. Assessment of solar powered drip irrigation project implemented by Ministry of Agriculture – phase 1. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 50p. (HARTI Research Report 148)
Drip irrigation ; Irrigation systems ; Solar energy ; Agriculture ; Water management ; Sustainability ; Fertigation ; Socioeconomic environment ; Farmers ; Loans ; Projects / Sri Lanka / Ampara / Anuradhapura / Badulla / Hambantota / Kurunegala / Matale / Moneragala / Polonnaruwa / Puttalam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G744 AHE Record No: H046412)
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10 Samantha, N. P. G.; Vidanapathirana, R.; Rambukwella, R. 2013. Issues in big onion seed production and marketing. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 45p. (HARTI Research Report 150)
Seed production ; Onions ; Marketing ; Seed industry ; Seed storage ; Production costs ; Income ; Farmers ; Socioeconomic environment ; Surveys / Sri Lanka / Matale / Anuradhapura / Galewala / Dambulla / Kimbissa / Ipalogama / Maradankadawala
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.52 G744 SAM Record No: H046413)
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11 Bandara, M. A. C. S.; Padmajani, M. T. 2014. Evaluation of Solar Powered Drip Irrigation Project – phase 2. [Project report of the Sustainable Agriculture Water Management done under the Ministry of Agriculture]. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 52p. (HARTI Research Report 166)
Drip irrigation ; Irrigation systems ; Solar energy ; Performance evaluation ; Sustainable agriculture ; Water management ; Projects ; Farmers ; Stakeholders ; Government departments / Sri Lanka / Ampara / Badulla / Jaffna / Kurunegala / Matale / Mullaitivu / Polonnaruwa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G744 BAN Record No: H046647)
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12 Aheeyar, M. M. M.; Bandara, M. A. C. S.; Padmajani, M. T. 2012. Assessment of solar powered drip irrigation project implemented by Ministry of Agriculture – phase 1. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 50p. (HARTI Research Report 148)
Drip irrigation ; Irrigation systems ; Solar energy ; Agriculture ; Water management ; Sustainability ; Fertigation ; Socioeconomic environment ; Farmers ; Loans ; Projects / Sri Lanka / Ampara / Anuradhapura / Badulla / Hambantota / Kurunegala / Matale / Moneragala / Polonnaruwa / Puttalam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G744 AHE c2 Record No: H046662)
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13 Damayanthi, M. K. N.; Rambodagedara, R. M. M. H. K. 2013. Factors affecting less youth participation in smallholder agriculture in Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 102p. (HARTI Research Report 154)
Agricultural sector ; Young workers ; Farmer participation ; Smallholders ; Gender ; Unemployment ; Socioeconomic environment ; Vocational training ; Agricultural extension ; Land use ; Farmland ; Crop insurance ; Case studies / Sri Lanka / Nuwara Eliya / Matale / Polonnaruwa / Kurunegala / Ampara / Hambantota / Monaragala / Anuradhapura / Batticaloa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630 G744 DAM Record No: H046989)
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14 Samarasinha, G. G. de L. W.; Aheeyar, M. M. M. 2013. Informal land fragmentation in settlement schemes. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 30p. (HARTI Research Report 157)
Land consolidation ; Settlement ; Irrigation schemes ; Land tenure ; Land productivity ; Land distribution ; Legal aspects ; Highlands ; Lowland ; Water sharing ; Farmers ; Socioeconomic environment ; Living standards ; Case studies / Sri Lanka / Polonnaruwa / Kandy / Anuradhapura / Badulla / Kurunegala / Batticaloa / Matale / Minneriya Settlement Scheme / Minipe Settlement Scheme / Rajangana Left Bank Settlement Scheme / Mahaweli System C / Girandurukotte / Wennoruwa Tank / Navagiri Scheme / Dewahuwa Settlement Scheme
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.33 G744 SAM Record No: H046990)
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15 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.
16 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.
17 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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18 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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