Gallery

Water and land

The reservoirs, canals and paddy landscape that the dry-zone civilisation was built on.

Kala Wewa, linked to Anuradhapura by an 87-kilometre canal. Nuwaiza Naseem · CC BY-SA 4.0
Minneriya Wewa, built under Mahasena and still irrigating land today. Cherubino · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bunded paddy fields — the working landscape the tank system exists to produce. Anton Croos · CC BY-SA 3.0