SAND EXTRACTION – SRI LANKA
November 1st, 2002
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKAA SENIOR Sri Lankan government official has warned his country's construction industry that it faces running out of sand unless it stops over-exploiting river deposits and fails to develop extraction from the seabed offshore.Janapriya de Silva, Chairman of the island's Geological Survey and Mines Bureau, has warned: "We could run short of sand in another two years' time." He added that river sand mining was seriously damaging the environment, weakening river-banks and the foundations of bridges, and causing seawater to flow ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.