Pimburettawa Tank

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Historical Overview
2. dictatorship.
The king owned all natural resources – land, water, and forest— n the farmer and the king’s rmined by the farmer’s area of irrigated rice land. The vel vidane marked the size of the pile for for managing water, and had the authority to take action against those who violated the rules and regulations. In addition to this,the vel vidane distributed the fish catch from the tank each year with the participation of the farmers.
In some systems, farmers had two plots of lands, one at the head and the other at the
tail. This prevented overuse of water by head-end farmers. This techno social model was very effective, and to some degree all the stakeholders participated in the irrigation management system. However, this system was destroyed by internal and external political struggles. Dry zone agriculture was badly neglected during the British rule.

After Independence, the Government focused on restoration of dry zone irrigation
schemes. This was mainly to utilize the the rich lands in the dry zone and to settle people from the wet zone in the dry zone. The population in many large and medium irrigation schemes comprises settlers from various part of the country, while the majority of the people under smallscale tanks have been living in their traditional villages for many generations.
For your information,extracted from a web page by MDH.