Mon 19 May 2008 - The Ancient Tank of Kandalama
"Let not even a drop of rain water go to the sea without benefiting man".
Parakrama Bahu 1153–1186 AD , words which inspired ancient Sinhalese to build the tanks
'Wewa' - n. ancient tanks of Sri Lanka built by the early settlers in villages around the fourth century B.C. These tanks were made to provide irrigation for the farmland on the Dry Zone in western part of the island.
According to Sir Henry Ward, Governor of Sri Lanka In: Collected Minutes of Brohier (1934) "...no other part of the world are there to be found within the same space, the remains of so many works of irrigation, which are, at the same time, of such great antiquity, and of such vast magnitude as Ceylon. Probably no other country can exhibit works so numerous, and at the same time so ancient and extensive, within the same limited area, as this Island."
Amazing but true. Many of the tanks are now under restoration (Plan Sri Lanka project) but what is more amazing is that many of the preserved wildlife of this country are thriving quite impressively around the vicinity of these tanks.
 
A distant view of Sigiriya rock from Kandalama tank.
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