Hu Wei, Charge d'affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka, and Vasudeva Nanayakkara, Sri Lankan Minister of Water Supply, signed a supplementary agreement in Colombo on Oct. 14th Wednesday, 2020 on a Memorandum of Understanding on water research and technology cooperation, aimed at providing clean drinking water to several areas of the island country.

Original MoU between Sri Lanka and China was inked in March 2015 to tackle the chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) and provide clean drinking water for CKDu prevalence areas in Sri Lanka.

Under the MoU, a state-of-the-art Joint Research and Demonstration Center for Water Technology (JRDC) was established recently in the campus of the University of Peradeniya.

Dr. Priyath Bandu Wickrama, Secretary of Water Supply, Prof Upul B. Dissanayake, Vice-Chancellor, University of Peradeniya and Dr. S.K. Weragoda, Project Director (China Sri Lanka Research Grant Project), Ministry of City Planning and Water Supply were also present at the occasion of signing the MoU.