Engr. Kanthar Balanathan
DipEE(UK),
Grad.Cert.(Rel. Eng-Monash) DipBusAdm(Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE
Retired Director & Specialist Engineer Power &
Control Systems
Leading Engineer of the World 2006, UK Authority Award
4th January 2023
Hon Mr. Jeevan Thondaman MP
Minster for Water Supply
GOSL
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Hon Minister,
I like to bring up some key points as you are the Minister
for water supply services etc and we all know that Sri Lankans have a carefree
attitude in all matters. Please read this letter fully. Let me introduce
myself, please.
I am eighty years old and retired in Australia. I lived in
various countries. My father was the OIC (Law enforcement officer) in Pundaloya
in 1960. I lived as a child in Colombo, Kamburupitiya, Matara etc. When I come
to Pundaloya on my college vacation I use to visit the tea estate and talk to
the workers. It was disheartening to know their living style. They have only
one meal a day which is Kanchi. I am
sending you a copy of the report about how they were brought to Ceylon. I hope
you will read this report and enlighten your knowledge on the estate workers.
Tea estate workers are known as foreign exchange earners and
hard-working people in SL. However, they have been treated like animals by the
SL government and the Sri Lankan people.
I have appealed to politicians previously about their income
etc, but in vain. Teachers from my village (Vaddukoddai) were in the Hill
country teaching children in schools in the 50s. They also told me about the
bad way the Upcountry Tamils were treated. Sri Lankan politicians only want the
votes from the people, once they get elected with their votes, they forget the
people. Politicians have an obligation to society which they do
not observe and execute. Jaffna men are traitors and have no feelings for these
workers. Now that you have several Ministers who have the power: why not use
your empowerment to help these poor estate workers?
Recently I read that they use contaminated water. I have read
through the research papers and found them correct. The process is that when
research is done and the final paper is submitted, then the outcome shall be
that the Minister shall execute the recommendations to keep the environment
safe. However, when the research is completed, the person gets his PhD and gets
a good salary and that's the end of the process. Everyone forgets the topic and
the research outcome.
I am not blaming you but all the politicians are like that.
They are proving that SL is an idiotic country which has no meaning to true
safe living. Someone stole Rs. five million from the Central Bank Vault.
What is the problem with the
water in Sri Lanka?
Quote:
The primary problems
concerning water resources in Sri Lanka are the depletion and degradation
of the resource caused by various anthropogenic activities. Surface inland waters
in urban areas are polluted heavily with domestic sewage and industrial
effluents and in rural areas with agricultural runoff.
Abstract: Man-made pollution and
environmental degradation pose a severe challenge to all Sri Lankans. The main
water resource problems in Sri Lanka are due to various human activities such
as agriculture, fossil fuel combustion, urbanization, and industrial and
commercial activities.10
Jan 2022
The
Causes of Water Pollution
- Industrial Waste.
Industries and industrial sites across the world are major contributors to
water pollution. ...
- Marine Dumping. ...
- Sewage and Wastewater.
...
- Oil Leaks and Spills. ...
- Agriculture. ...
- Global Warming. ...
- Radioactive Waste
We all know that people dump anything into the river.
This is the link to the JayawardenaPura University research
paper:
G.G.T. Chandrathilake
Department
of Forestry and Environmental Science, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri
Lanka
http://journals.sjp.ac.lk/index.php/fesympo/article/view/93
Evaluation
of drinking water supply schemes in estate sector: A case study on Telbedda
estate, Sri Lanka; G.G.T. Chandrathilake, B. de Silva
In the North, people build septic sewerage tanks to collect
the sewerage. These pits are supposed to be more than 25 feet away from a well.
However, people bribe the inspectors and get it approved with no understanding
of the consequential damage the environment will do to them and their children.
Some of the Insopectos were nick-named Mr. Twenty-five rupees.
This is how Sri Lanka manages and controls its environmental
management. Ridiculous.
Mr Mano Ganesan is another politician who has no interest in his
people. As far as he is elected he is okay, forgets the voters and aspires for
a ministerial portfolio. Why not bring the issues to the parliament, please?
Jaffna politicians are useless and they all should go home.
Young people like you should enter politics.
I lived in Pundaloya and know the system and the environment.
As a young politician and a Minister, please help those poor
workers who earn foreign exchange for the country. I may take this up with an international
appropriate authority on environmental and discrimination issues. I am a
researcher on environmental, discrimination, oppression, and political issues.
Research procedures are not followed in Sri Lanka. I may be
wrong if action has been taken.
Thanking you,
Yours Sincerely
Engr. Kanthar Balanathan
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