Sri Lanka. Help flood victims as a 'Vesak Pinkama (South Asia Monitor)

With weather patterns becoming unpredictable even with the use of hi-tech equipment, Sri Lanka is struggling through one of its worst-ever floods in recent decades. Experts say the extreme weather patterns and their unpredictable nature are largely the consequences of climate change and global warming. Till May 15 Sri Lanka was virtually boiling with temperatures reaching their hottest points in recorded history. But suddenly we were taken from one extreme to another with hundreds of thousands of people displaced, rivers and canals overflowing as are the major water reservoirs where sluice gates have been opened and millions of litres of water are going waste if not causing devastation

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