Sunday Leader: Colombo is a wetland, and any harm to it has disastrous economic effects, an agronomist said.
Dr Andrew Noble, Senior Fellow, International Water Management Institute, delivering a lecture on biodiversity in Colombo on Thursday (May 23) said flooding in Colombo during the rainy season is an example of the consequences that follow when retention lands are encroached and have to make way for urbanization and development.
He said Colombo has no waterways to cause flooding.
The cause is due...