Environmental policy and administrative management

Rationale:water in many of the wells in the Kalpitiya Peninsula was unfit for drinking and that the residents of would not be able to obtain drinking water eventhough the supply mechanisms were in place. Objectives: To remedy the problem of nitrate and nitrite pollution in 25 drinking water wells in Nawakkaduwa in the Kalpitiya Peninsula. To cahnge the present land management practices to organic agriculture including the use of diverse tree crops in the landscape design of 25 home gardens. To restore some of teh lost mangrove vegetation in that area previously used for prawn farming and now abandoned. activities: social mobilization of potential benificiaries, local administrators etc. ,awareness creation by conducting various workshops, lectures, field visits and exhibitions on health, hygene,, livestock development, forest conservation, food processing, etc., construction of eco toilets, initiating effective waste disposal through composting, improving water quality, income generation

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