Heaven’s scorching eye ignores prayers for rain
By Nadia Fazlulhaq-August 17, 2014
Thousands of villagers pray for rain as the ancient giant tanks and irrigation systems continue to dry up in 14 districts mostly in the North, East and North-Central provinces, with experts forecasting a continued need for trucked-in drinking water.
The famous 12th-century Parakrama Samudraya now has only one-fifteenth of the water it was built to hold.
A dried up tank in Yala
Although the Yala crop season has reached its end and the Maha season is to begin in October, water for domestic use as well as water for wildlife will be in short supply, with heavy rains not expected until late September.
Government Agents (District Secretaries) and irrigation and meteorological experts voiced the need for continued supplies of clean drinking water as well as for containers, barrels and tanks to hold water.
