SRI LANKA SAND MINING
January 1st, 2003
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKATHE SRI Lankan government will release a 'National Policy on River Sand Removal' in the coming weeks, to restrict an environmentally damaging boom in unregulated extraction. The country's Minister of Irrigation and Water Management Gamini Jayawickrema Perera announced that permits for sand mining had already been blocked in two areas Deduru Oya and Ma Oya, where extraction had damaged river banks and flood protection. To help the industry, the Columbo government has started a programme to identify coastal sand dunes which can be ...
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