Wednesday 30 November 2011

Minor Irrigation Tanks in Sri Lanka

In this undergraduate project carried out at the University of Ruhuna, Galle Sri Lanka an interactive inventory of minor tanks was developed.

A minor tank is defined as a reservoir which irrigates less than 200 acres of land.

Details of the methodology adopted will be discussed in another post.

A sample map of the final outcome is given below. The tank icons are color coded. The four colors represent the irrigable area of the tank. Yellow 0-50 acres, Green 51 - 100 acres etc. Click on an icon to get details of the tank including a photograph.