The Kurunegala Regional Irrigation Directorate completed seasonal water-sharing and canal regulation assessments across the Deduru Oya multipurpose reservoir system today, September 24, 2026.

With reservoir storage stabilized at optimal capacity following seasonal catchment inflows, engineers are completing pre-season desilting across major left-bank and right-bank feeder canals. District agrarian committees finalized the rotational distribution timetable, ensuring that over 25,000 acres of smallholder paddy and highland subsidiary crop lands across Kurunegala and Puttalam receive consistent irrigation throughout the upcoming 2026/2027 Maha agricultural cycle.