30 MARCH 1998. SRI LANKA: CLIMATE (DROUGHT)

Reuters reports that Sri Lanka may ration water supplies in mid April as reservoirs dry up. The two main reservoirs have 150 days of supply but others are already dry. The May monsoon is expected to break the drought. Seventy-two percent of the country's electric production comes from hydropower . --based on a report from Reuter's Colombo Newsroom <colombo.newsroom@reuters.com.

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