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Wed, Dec 24, 2014, 02:25 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.Dec 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) COLOMBO- A series of extreme weather events in the past three years has held back already slow post-war reconstruction efforts in Sri Lanka's Northern Province, officials and experts say.
This year's long dry spell drove down agricultural production. Water shortages also hampered the building of thousands of houses to replace those destroyed in 2008 and 2009, during the last phase of the country's 26-year war between the government and Tamil insurgents.
"The drought has been terrible - probably the worst in the last decade," said Rupavanthi Ketheeswaran, the top public official for Kilinochchi District, one of four that make up Northern Province.
The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society said the drought had been a major concern for re-housing efforts in 2014.
more/source: http://www.lankapage.com/NewsFiles14/Dec24_1419411300.php
This year's long dry spell drove down agricultural production. Water shortages also hampered the building of thousands of houses to replace those destroyed in 2008 and 2009, during the last phase of the country's 26-year war between the government and Tamil insurgents.
"The drought has been terrible - probably the worst in the last decade," said Rupavanthi Ketheeswaran, the top public official for Kilinochchi District, one of four that make up Northern Province.
The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society said the drought had been a major concern for re-housing efforts in 2014.
more/source: http://www.lankapage.com/NewsFiles14/Dec24_1419411300.php
