Sri Lanka’s main source of electricity is hydropower and fossil fuels, Sri Lanka’s has been using hydropower since the late 1900s. The first dam in Sri Lanka was the Victoria Dam and it was complete in April 1985. According to the World Bank, in 1976, 24% of Sri Lanka’s electricity from produced from fossil fuels and in 2011, the percentage increased to 48%. This equals to 256819200 kilos of CO2 per which can… and will change climate patterns and rainfall patterns. With the increase use of fossil fuels, the CO2 emissions increased rapidly, in 1976 Sri Lanka produced around 3000 Kt, and this increased to about 12000 Kt in 2008. Since then Sri Lanka has been building more dams to reduce the amount of CO2 emissions and to depend more in hydropower instead of fossil fuels. So far there are 30 dams built in Sri Lanka and the Kitulgala dam will be the last one, thus Sri Lanka’s total amount of dams will be 31. The dam will have an immensely large impact on the nature, especially in the area itself. The area Kitulgala has a very diverse eco-system with a large variety of organisms in the jungle and the river both. The jungle has a lot of wild-life to offer and so does the river. But the dam will have an impact on the wildlife living there.