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Letter: Much bigger than your average water tank

Published 13 February 2019

From Ted Webber, Buderim, Queensland, Australia

Sandrine Ceurstemont writes about “water tanks” in Sri Lanka (12 January, p 46). These are not what people outside the Indian subcontinent usually think of as a tank. An ancient one in Sri Lanka, the Parakrama Samudra, covers 30 square kilometres.

Issue no. 3217 published 16 February 2019

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