Auke Piek, a 44-year-old Dutch engineer, says he has a solution to the Caribbean’s worst drought in half a century — and it lies hundreds of miles away in the tropical rain forests of Suriname.
This week, a boat will tow a giant bag made from PVC-coated fabric with enough water to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool from Suriname to drought-stricken Barbados and Curacao. It will be a test run for a technology Piek said he wants to expand to other Caribbean islands, and eventually, as far afield as the Middle East.
“Water is our blue gold,” said Erlyn Power, Suriname representative for Piek’s company, Amazone Resources. “I visit islands where people are having their water turned off and here we have so much of it that it’s just flowing into the sea.”
That would be environmentally friendly and cheaper. It looks fanciful and spectacular.
um thats good if this test run is successful, perhaps we cou;d purchas a bag or two and a boat,
Finance is not a problem
so what does that make dominica Suriname?this sounds kinda funny seeing Barbados is a stone throw from both st lucia and dominica
garcon, if a bottle of imported water form Trinidad is selling here at $3.00 and the same size bottle of local water for $3.50 we have a problem. Good luck exporting water from Dominica, there is plenty of competition believe me. The only thing we are cheaper is our passports.
Dominica….what are we really doing??
We in Dominica should be doing the same thing rather than subsidizing L.I.A.T.
Maybe Dominica, with 365 rivers, can see an economic opportunity here!
We have same ‘water flowing 24/7 to the sea’. What’s great is that Dominica’s water is pure and clean requiring little filtering or treatment. Hence the price of a case of Loubiere water which forces the retail price to $2.50 per 8 ounce little bottle locally. I rather buy water from Antigua, distilled from sea water than local water. Forgive me.
Brilliant job!
It’s not that our government has discussed tossed this idea around for some time now. It’s just that compared to selling passports, this just looks like too much work. Besides, sounds everyone would have to know how much water you delivered – and at what price…
If only we had thought of this…we have so much water in DA
Maybe Bouterse can hide some white powder in there for his Columbian friends?