Medawachchiya

Medawachchiya lies in the dry country north of Anuradhapura, within the Malwathu Oya basin. Small reservoirs here, including Sarakkuwa Wewa and Mahakubuk Wewa, belong to a long tradition of water storage in northern Sri Lanka. Such tanks collect rain and runoff and can be linked in cascades, allowing water released from one reservoir to enter another downstream and support rice cultivation.