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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Evaluation of Groundwater Quality in 14 Districts in Sri Lanka: A Collaboration Research Between Sri Lanka and Japan
Authors : S. K. Weragoda, Tomonori Kawakami
Published in: Trends in Asian Water Environmental Science and Technology
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Groundwater is an indispensable source of drinking water in many rural communities in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. However in most of the areas in dry zone, many residents suffer from health problems associated with high fluoride concentration in drinking water (Tennakoon 2004). In addition, current medical data of these regions have shown a significant increase of number of patients of Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) during the recent past. It is evident with several studies done in recent past that there is an increasing trend on the reporting of patients admitted with CKDu (Bandara 2008; Chandrajith 2010).