Royal Eijkelkamp has won a five-year multi-million euro project in Sri Lanka. Under instructions of the Sri Lankan Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources Management, Royal Eijkelkamp started in various regions of the South Asian country with the realization of a groundwater monitoring network.
Like many other countries, Sri Lanka also face a variety of groundwater related problems. Groundwater is becoming scarcer, population growth increases the demand for groundwater, and a large variety of user causes fluctuations in level, quality and composition of the groundwater. In addition, there are various climatic zones in Sri Lanka. In the dry zone, where residents are affected frequently by chronic kidney disease, a very high arsenic and mercury content is found in most drinking water samples.