Sri Lanka is recognized as vulnerable to climate change impacts, ranked 100th of 181 countries in the 2017 ND-GAIN Index. Unpredictable variability of rainfall patterns in the country could probably be due to global climate change with the increase in the frequency of extreme weather events. Floods, landslides, and drought are causing significant human, environmental, and economic losses which seriously affect the GDP of the country hence, there is an urgent need and essential requirement of reducing human and economic damages by managing these disaster risks in the country through early warning based on reliable rainfall prediction.

National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) is the national focal point for landslide risk management in Sri Lanka and has identified the value of precise measurements and the necessity of data point resolution on rainfall values for early warning. With its expertise, NBRO has designed a standard and durable, manual rain gauge with a 300 mm measuring capacity. The measurement of the amount of precipitation in a certain area over a period of time can be used from the household level to a wide range of uses; prediction of threshold water levels in farming, flood and landslide warning and etc.
The device is user-friendly for measures as the rain gauge design is adaptable and may be tailored to the client's needs, such as scale and instruction language is available at an affordable price with proper after-sales services.

Mr. R Ruhunuge
Scientist
Environmental Studies and Services Division
National Building Research Organisation
Office: 011-2588946 (Ext. 589), Mobile: 077-7190811
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