When the rains don’t fall

Inter Press Service: For many Sri Lankans, the effects of climate change can be summed up in one word: rainfall. "The biggest impact (of climate change) is rainfall or the lack of it," W L Sumathipala, one of Sri Lanka's foremost experts in changing climate patterns, told IPS on a scorching hot and humid day in Colombo. "The availability of water can effect multiple things in Sri Lanka from crops to power generation to the currency," Sumathipala, who formerly headed the climate change unit at the Ministry of......

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