Download or read book Ruhuna benchmark basin activities: Proceedings of the inaugural meeting held at Peacock Beach Hotel, Hambantota, Sri Lanka, 15 June 2001 written by and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2001 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents a Benchmark Basin initiative which was proposed in IWMI's Strategic Plan 2001-2005 as an approach to understand and beneficially influence water resources development in selected basins in a variety of agro-ecological zones. The initial task represented by this workshop is to conduct a dialogue among partners and stakeholders in the Ruhuna Basin, Sri Lanka. A major objective is to identify these issues and research and also development activities considered to be of highest priority to partners and stakeholders.