SRI LANKA: How 22 Million People Live on One Island | 4K Travel Documentary
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Two thirds of this island receives too little rain, too unevenly, to grow rice. It is where almost all of Sri Lanka's rice is grown. The reason sits in plain sight on every satellite image and almost nobody recognises it. Those thousands of pools scattered across the dry zone are not lakes. They are reservoirs, around eighteen thousand of them, the highest density of stored water on Earth, roughly fifteen thousand dug before the year 1300 and linked into cascades that use the same water three and four times on its way downhill. Ten thousand are still working today.
In this documentary, discover how engineers without instruments ran a canal 87 kilometres across flat ground at a gradient of under 10 centimetres per kilometre, why the system failed and left the island's heartland empty for six hundred years, and what happens now that 22 million people and around 6,000 wild elephants need the same water.
Take a breath. Stay a while.
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La verdad es que ver cómo es la vida justo encima del segundo yacimiento petrolífero más grande del mundo impresiona bastante. A veces este tipo de documentales nos muestran una cara muy ostentosa, pero lo que más me gustó de este video fue ver el contraste real del día a día, la arquitectura y cómo vive la gente allí más allá de los rascacielos y el petróleo.
Te hace reflexionar un montón sobre cómo el entorno define por completo una cultura. ¡Muy recomendado para entender otra perspectiva del país!
SRI LANKA: How 22 Million People Live on One Island | 4K Travel Documentary
Where on Earth
124,488 views
Two thirds of this island receives too little rain, too unevenly, to grow rice. It is where almost all of Sri Lanka's rice is grown. The reason sits in plain sight on every satellite image and almost nobody recognises it. Those thousands of pools scattered across the dry zone are not lakes. They are reservoirs, around eighteen thousand of them, the highest density of stored water on Earth, roughly fifteen thousand dug before the year 1300 and linked into cascades that use the same water three and four times on its way downhill. Ten thousand are still working today.
In this documentary, discover how engineers without instruments ran a canal 87 kilometres across flat ground at a gradient of under 10 centimetres per kilometre, why the system failed and left the island's heartland empty for six hundred years, and what happens now that 22 million people and around 6,000 wild elephants need the same water.
Take a breath. Stay a while.
▶ See More Asia Documentaries:
IRAN: How People Live Beyond the Front Pag...
BAHRAIN: The Gulf State That Found Oil Fir...
▶ Subscribe: @whereonearth4k
#SriLanka #TravelDocumentary #Documentary #WhereOnEarth #SouthAsia #AncientEngineering