The purpose of this project is to provide fresh water to the community of the Jaffna peninsula by harvesting wasted water from NP mainland and using to enhance agriculture productivity with drinking water needs of whole Jaffna Peninsula population.
Harvested water is partly used to supressing the capillary induced saline Vadamarachi East Lagoon (VEL) during dry months of July / Aug / Sep and thereby improve the water resources of VEL for productive use by regeneration of land through reclamation. To achieve the above purpose four following projects are identified for implementation: