{"id":15550,"date":"2024-12-16T17:17:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T13:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahabghodss.com\/inauguration-of-the-uma-oya-multipurpose-dam-and-power-project-in-sri-lanka\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:27:21","slug":"news1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahabghodss.com\/en\/news1\/","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration of the Uma Oya Multipurpose Dam and Power Project in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mahab Ghodss has successfully inaugurated and commissioned the Uma Oya Multipurpose Dam and Power Plant project in Sri Lanka<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-color:#f5eac1;padding-top:6vw;padding-right:6vw;padding-bottom:6vw;padding-left:6vw\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-a5cd18e8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Uma Oya project, the world\u2019s deepest underground hydroelectric power plant, is located at a depth of 750 meters below the surface. Designed and constructed in Sri Lanka, this facility facilitates water transfer from water-abundant regions to water-scarce areas and is now fully operational.<br\/>Mahab Ghodss\u2019s engineering milestones for this project encompass the excavation of a 15 km tunnel, the development of a two-dam complex linked by the aforementioned tunnel, and the construction of the world\u2019s largest vertical water conveyance shaft (600 m).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahab Ghodss has successfully inaugurated and commissioned the Uma Oya Multipurpose Dam and Power Plant project in Sri Lanka The Uma Oya project, the world\u2019s deepest underground hydroelectric power plant, is located at a depth of 750 meters below the surface. Designed and constructed in Sri Lanka, this facility facilitates water transfer from water-abundant regions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahabghodss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahabghodss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahabghodss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahabghodss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahabghodss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahabghodss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahabghodss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahabghodss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahabghodss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahabghodss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}