Turuwila Tank

Sri Lanka / Anuradhapuraya / Anuradhapura /
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Coordinates:   8°12'59"N   80°25'53"E

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  • Sri Lanka receives about 12 million hectare meters of water annually from rainfall, of which more than 50 percent lost through evapo-transpiration another 20 percent seeps down to replenish ground water. Only 30 percents or about 3.5 million hectare meters, is available as stream flow for irrigation or other purposes. (Natural Resource of Sri Lanka, 1991) Early people gradually developed systems of sedentary agriculture based on irrigation, and folklore maintains that the Yakkas built some ancient irrigation tanks. By the arrival of Vijaya, a prince from North India, around 500 BC, small-scale irrigation systems were already operational. (Natural Resource of Sri Lanka, 1991)
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