But I do not know if you have realized, apart from the immediate environmental issues with the port city, when it is completed and in full flow there will be 300,000 people living on those 500 acres of land which is half the population of this city (Colombo),
Can you imagine this issues in terms of water, transport and also in terms of sewarage? he asked.
I had a short discussion with the mayor of the Colombo on it, and the one thing I told him very clearly is that there is no way in which the sewerage of that inquired land could be connect with the system presently of that we are using which is nearly 200 years old.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament