"WITH RISING global temperatures that threaten reliable access to fresh water, Jamaicans need to adopt a new mantra for water security: ‘Every Drop Precious’.
This is the view of Managing Director for the Water Resources Authority (WRA), Peter Clarke, who said all stakeholders must be motivated to ‘reclaim, reuse, reduce, and reserve’ the vital natural resource.
“The more we can reserve that fresh water, the more we can put ourselves in a position to be resilient to climate change,” he told The Gleaner.
His statement comes following recent record high temperatures in Jamaica that got up to as much as three degrees higher than last year – the fourth-warmest year on record for the island since 1880."
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Published on 04 Jul, 2019
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