Jamaica Flooded, Water, Water Everywhere and soon not a drop to drink
Water, water everywhere and soon not a drop to drink! Over the past month, Jamaica has been flooded with water from what seemed like a never-ending nonstop rainstorm. Water is everywhere wreaking havoc on our fragile infrastructure. Newly build highways flooded, landslides block roads, roads landslides into rivers and valleys, houses collapse and washed away, and several people have lost their lives. The agricultural sector, which normally screams for more water is being hard hit with farms flooded and crops flooded and suffer water damaged. Jamaica moves from one extreme to the next, if its not drought, hurricane then its flood. The National Water Commission declared that the dams were all full and overflowing considering that our dams are almost filled with silt/sludge which makes them impossible to be filled with water. In fact, I predict that in the next two months, Jamaica will be suffering drought conditions with water shortages, water lock offs, talks of trucked water and ...