President Ranil Wickremesinghe together with visiting Iranian President Dr. Ebrahim Raisi jointly inaugurated the Uma Oya Multipurpose Development Project (UOMDP) today.
This project is one of the largest irrigation projects in Sri Lanka, following the Mahaweli Development Project.
It has been constructed with the assistance of Farab Energy and Water Projects (Farab Company) of Iran.
Farab Company has undertaken detailed feasibility studies, prepared detailed engineering designs, procured all materials, equipment and machinery, and carried out the physical construction, installation, testing and commissioning of the project.
The primary objective of the Uma Oya project is to alleviate water scarcity in the southeastern dry region of the country by redirecting an annual average of 145 million cubic meters of excess water from the Uma Oya basin to the Kirindi Oya basin. (Newswire)