jamaica drought

[blugiant]

wat a ting

itt soo dry inn jamaica dat no water cumminn out aff de pipe

peeps a walk pon de street widd bucket pon dem head begginn water

bruce guv a fine peeps wey a use water fii grow food

peeps a use barrel ann tanks fii ketch water

poor peeps inn jamaica a go thirstee

mii wandar oww de tourists bearinn

[diabolical_Tanya]

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I heard about this yesterday when mi supplier call fi tell mi him can't get noh more calaloo or breadfruit fi bring up sake a di drought

[CeaBee]

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me hear seh dem tiefing water from people tank ..i dont even know how that work

[mangoskin]

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dessalinization is expensive-but they may need to do it

[Dr.Dudd]

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Desalination plants are way more expensive than Wells.
So if Jamaica cannot afford to maintain wells, how can it afford those plants?
One more thing,how is it that Jamaica is able to supply millions of gallons to the enormous cruise vessels weekly,but need desalinators.
Jamaica does not have a water shortage.It has a woeful lack of water storage facilities.
When was the last dam or reservoir built? And what was the population?

Why does the educated refuse to think fifty them,instead of limiting their thoughts to what they gleaned? <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mangoskin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">dessalinization is expensive-but they may need to do it </div></div>

[Sinco01]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mangoskin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">dessalinization is expensive-but they may need to do it </div></div>


thery need to dam &quot;Bog Walk Gorge&quot;

[Dr.Dudd]

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Why Should they do that?
Have you gave thought to how dams function?Let me remind you that they are really very large bow,with water flowing in from a higher elevation. Now tell me whatis the elevation of the sourto supply it?
Andhow would you get abowl when two ends of the gorge is only a few feet different in elevation?.
There we go again..It will not hold enough water to justify the investment.
Since the water source is the same as the lowest elevation.

In other words, if dam it, you would have to pump the water into it.
The volume of water needed is nessary to full the gorge to a level,that would require the flooding
Of Linstead and Bog Walk. <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sinco01</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mangoskin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">dessalinization is expensive-but they may need to do it </div></div>


thery need to dam &quot;Bog Walk Gorge&quot;
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[Sinco01]

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The Rio Cobre runs through that gorge ..
There are many points above and below &quot;Flat Bridge&quot; where the gorge can be dammed.
Walls can be built to prevent flooding nearby communities

I think the benefits to Kingston - St Catherine/Portmore and most south coast area communities far out weigh cost

[Dr.Dudd]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sinco01</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

The Rio Cobre runs through that gorge ..
There are many points above and below &quot;Flat Bridge&quot; where the gorge can be dammed.
Walls can be built to prevent flooding nearby communities

I think the benefits to Kingston - St Catherine/Portmore and most south coast area communities far out weigh cost </div></div>
There is no above neither is there any below flat bridge.
The terrain on both end of the gorge is flat and of almost equal elevation.
The rio cobre that supplies the water enter it from a plain with elevation of negligable difference.
How do you suggest this wall building process would create a functioning dam?

[Peasie]

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What other options are there that would provide a steady stream of
potable water for the Kingston metro area?

[halfwaytree]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What other options are there that would provide a steady stream of
potable water for the Kingston metro area? </div></div>

Conservation

[sistactry]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sinco01</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mangoskin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">dessalinization is expensive-but they may need to do it </div></div>


thery need to dam &quot;Bog Walk Gorge&quot;
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U KNOW HOW MUCH SINTING DEM CAN DAM....nufff a dem deh deh, why dem no tap into dem???

[sistactry]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sinco01</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

The Rio Cobre runs through that gorge ..
There are many points above and below &quot;Flat Bridge&quot; where the gorge can be dammed.
Walls can be built to prevent flooding nearby communities

I think the benefits to Kingston - St Catherine/Portmore and most south coast area communities far out weigh cost </div></div>
There is no above neither is there any below flat bridge.
The terrain on both end of the gorge is flat and of almost equal elevation.
The rio cobre that supplies the water enter it from a plain with elevation of negligable difference.
How do you suggest this wall building process would create a functioning dam? </div></div>

cant they tap into them somehow???

[blugiant]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Curmudgeon_Milo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What other options are there that would provide a steady stream of
potable water for the Kingston metro area? </div></div>

Conservation </div></div>

jamaica canservation iss turninn aff da tap. dat y yaawd peeps wey ave money buy watar tank

[blugiant]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Does water discriminate?</span>









<span style="font-weight: bold">A girl catches water at a standpipe in the Bucknor community located just outside of May Pen, Clarendon. This pipe supplies the entire community.</span>

















The very rich, the rich, and the not-so-rich mostly all have additional water storage tanks attached to their regular piped water supply. The very poor, the poor, and the not-so-poor, don't.

As a result, when the National Water Commission (NWC) locks off water from time to time in a vain attempt to save on water consumption, they discriminate against the poor, because these people are in fact the only ones who are inconvenienced. For the rich, an automatic trip-in of their storage tank provides continuous water supply and they are not even aware when there is a lock-off.

About three years ago the NWC adopted a revolutionary policy of turning down the water pressure (rather than cutting off the supply completely), which proved to be so successful in reducing the outflow from the dams, that they were able to boast at the end of the year that there had been no need for locking off water during the drought that particular year, as they were able to maintain adequate levels in the dams. Unfortunately they did not build on that, but instead reverted to the archaic and heartless system of depriving their clients totally of water (and, as you know, their own slogan says 'Water is life!')

Lock-offs are wasteful

That approach spawned a mushrooming of brand new plastic storage tanks scattered throughout the land, as it encouraged householders to provide for their own needs when, as it now became inevitable, the NWC eliminates water from the pipes without notice or planning. As I indicated, their method may spur the poor to conserve water, but not so with the other half of society.

If you think of it, you'll see that water lock-offs are extremely wasteful. Many times some individuals will try a tap during the lock-off period, find there is no water, and forget to turn off the tap. When the pressure comes back untold gallons of water go to waste, gushing from the already open tap. Also, doesn't the NWC have to pay additional wages to numerous workers who have to lock off and turn back on the mains at odd hours?

Many of the underground pipes throughout the system are leaking, so when the pressure drops in the pipes muddy water seeps into them from outside, and that comes rushing to your tap when they resume the water supply. In that situation there is no discrimination as all of us are then subject to the attacks of E. coli and other bacteria. Additionally, weak, rotten pipes, many of them underground, rupture under the repeated assault of fluctuating pressures.

In Jamaica today the total stored supply of water in a variety of private storage tanks is probably about equal to whatever supply there is remaining in the dams, but that private storage will never become available to the poor, nor will it likely be totally used up by the rich.

The NWC should re-establish the policy of turning down the pressure rather than implementing complete lock-offs.

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