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PARIS.- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) yesterday approved the establishing the Caribbean Region’s Water Management Center in the Dominican Republic, after discussing a proposal submitted by its Government.
National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (Indrhi), director Hector Rodriguez Pimentel submitted the request to the entity’s Executive Council in the 180th session, currently taking place in Unesco’s headquarters in Paris.
Rodriguez said the Center will promote and develop water policies, technology and research in the Caribbean, including Dominican Republic and received the support of the representatives from Cuba, Barbados, Grenada, Bahamas, Dominica, Haiti, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Aruba, among others.
The Indrhi director said the UN-funded center was approved because water scarcity and quality press the Caribbean island countries and Dominican Republic, where they’ll convene in in December for a workshop to formulate strategies.
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Once I was in a Caribbean island and witnessed a ship docking in port.....Do you know what the cargo was?
Water.
They had to import from another island and pay the ship to bring it in.
That's how lucky we are!
But we choose to squander it and misuse it. I watch the Dominican women go through the ritual of
washing their homes cement floor with a hose or buckets of water. What a waste!
We need to change some of these negative habits that we inherited from our ancestors and start
saving water and not wasting it.
Also our rivers are not to throw all kinds of garbage in like a dump. I remember when I was a child I used to go fishing in the rivers here. Would you eat a fish out of a river here? That is f you could find one.
Kudos to those to treasure and save our precious water resources.