Sri Lanka 2006: post tsunami documentary
On December 26, 2004, a series of tsunamis arose from the Indian Ocean, claiming nearly 230,000 victims.
Only second to Indonesia in lives lost, Sri Lanka suffered over 30,000 deaths.
Two years after the tsunami, Jawaharlal Nehru University professor Harish Naraindas, University of Iowa professor Paul Greenough, and University of Iowa doctoral student Swarnavel Eswaranpillai traveled to Sri Lanka to study drinking water conditions after the tsunami.
The three traveled on a $30,000 grant from the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER).
This is a chronicle of there 21 days in Sri Lanka.
For further information, contact Paul Greenough at paul-greenough@uiowa.edu or Soheil Rezayazdi at soheil-rezayazdi@uiowa.edu


