Our science and technology contribution needs to be sensitive to the environmental, technological, historical and socio-economic setting. We are preparing manuscripts on environmental hazards and policy, on science and technology history, on energy conservation and renewable energy and on climate and climate adaptation in Sri Lanka. Here, we report on some aspects of these works.

We have argued in a paper that appeared in Science, Techology and Society, that the indigenous irrigation systems in Sri Lanka offer a useful counterpoint of an irrigation system that has many favourable attributes.

Our thanks are due to the subscribers and contributors but particularly to the staff members who have worked to ensure its publication, its production in a format of increasing quality and its presentation on the internet.

Our work on EIA has lead to an understanding of environmental history, law and protection. A summary was reported in the Journal of the Institution of Engineers in Sri Lanka and in Environmental Impact Analysis.

There are often failures of communication between metropolitan climate forecasts centers and peripheral users. We have analyzed the reasons for miscommunication during the El Niño of 1997 and the successful communication during the El Niño of 2002 in Sri Lanka.