Sri Lanka, Oct. 14 -- Many pregnant women in our village have left to other places because of the noise of the windmills

People of Mannar Island are staging peaceful protests against the impact of a major wind power project on their lives However, authorities maintain that the project is crucial for advancing the nation's renewable energy goals People in Mannar Island complain that their cultivations have suffered By Mirudhula Thambiah

In Keeri village on Mannar Island, S. Vijithan remembers the simple act of buying water as a child. "Our family bought a pot of drinking water for Rs. 20, and my mother would cook white rice from it because the water was so pure and tasty," he recalled. Today, that same water is undrinkable - black, yello...