The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake
Hon. Ravi Karunanayake asked the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation for details on the Mahaweli Scheme’s hydropower capacity, generation since 2020, commissioning dates, approving Presidents, reservoir sedimentation levels, and dam safety funding over the past five years. He also sought information on measures to balance irrigation, drinking water supply, and power generation under changing rainfall patterns, and whether climate-resilience assessments have been conducted for irrigation reliability and flood management.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Question No. 2004/2026 to the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation:
¶ 02 (a) Will he inform this House the: (i) total installed hydropower capacity under the Mahaweli Scheme and the annual generation from 2020 to date; (ii) date on which such hydropower facilities were constructed and commissioned, and the President who approved the construction; (iii) current sedimentation levels in major reservoirs, including Victoria, Randenigala and Kotmale, and the impact on storage capacity; (iv) funds allocated for dam safety and rehabilitation during the last five years; and (v) steps taken to balance agricultural irrigation, drinking water supply and power generation under changing rainfall patterns?
¶ 03 (b) Will he also inform this House whether a climate-resilient assessment has been conducted on irrigation reliability and flood management capacity?
¶ 04 (c) If not, why?
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- Hansard, Friday, 22 May 2026 ·No. 23666 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 22 May 2026. No. 23666. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/16998