Effluent ‘coda’ originating from palmyrah toddy distillery units is the major source of environmental pollution in the Jaffna district of Sri Lanka. Spent wash produced from distilleries is rich in organic material and ...

Chunnakam aquifer is the main limestone aquifer of Jaffna peninsula. This study focused on characterization of Chunnakam aquifer for its suitability for irrigation. Groundwater samples were collected from wells to represent ...

The productiveness of an aquifer is determined by its aquifer parameters such as specific yield and permeability. Due to the complicated features of the large diameter wells and inadequate resources to conduct pumping tests ...

This paper describes a sensitivity analysis of soil and crop parameters used in an improved soil moisture balance method to determine the greatest influence of parameter on estimating groundwater recharge. Sensitivity ...

The hydro chemical study reveals the quality of water and its suitability for drinking, agriculture and industrial purposes. Presence of excessive quantities of salts in groundwater is one of the major constraints in ...

Study discuss the yield performance of red onion under sprinkler irrigation with different moisture regime in DL3 agro climatic zone in calcic red latasols in Jaffna. The objective of the study is to assess yield performance ...

The study was conducted to investigate temporal variation in quality of groundwater in two different land use domestic and agriculture. Groundwater quality analysis was done for pH, electrical conductivity, chloride and ...

The study revel that summarizing large volume of rainfall data as concisely as possible without discarding the important information such as start, end and length of the rainy season, the distribution of rainfall amounts ...

The study focussed on the criteria used in assessing the quality of ground water. Among physical properties, turbidity, colour, odour and taste and among chemical properties; chloride, iron and sulphate concentration, total ...