The government’s focus on El Nino continues as the weeks progress and the water reserves in the country continue to dwindle. Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon, in his weekly press briefing,Cheap NFL Jerseys, noted that the impact on various sectors of the country was sustained as the drought conditions stretch into the third month of the year.He examined the impact of the conditions with regards to the domestic and agricultural consumers, noting that the availability of the surface water has fast dropped to less than optimal conditions. This has GWI rationing the water it supplies to the capital.Asked to comment on the state of the water reserves around the country, Yuri Chandisingh,Supply Cheapest Soccer Jerseys, Chief Executive Officer of GWI, said that the levels at the conservancy have not suffered any degradation since the company’s last press release,Air Max 270 Sale, but the Lamaha Canal has been a cause for concern.He noted, however,Cheap China Jerseys, that with the assistance of the East Demerara Water Conservancy Board and the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority GWI is thus far managing to keep the levels of water in the canal at a level that ensures most of the domestic needs of Georgetown and its environs are met.In terms of rationing the residents of Central Georgetown and areas such as Queenstown that depend on the Shelter Belt Plant will find that their supply in the afternoons is shut off and put back on for the peak hours in the evening,Wholesale China Jerseys, this is in an effort to ensure that the city does not completely tap out its entire daily water ration before the peak hours.Similarly, water supply is reduced between the hours of 21:30 and 5:30 at nights for these areas.Other places that are less dependent on surface water will find that the conservation effort reaches them too in the form of a pressure reduction in the water coming through their taps in off peak hours.According to Mr. Chandisingh, residents in these areas need to understand that the amount of water that it is possible to extract from wells is not inexhaustible, contrary to popular belief rains in the hinterland area will not automatically replenish the water table which in turn feeds the wells, the process takes time,NFL Jerseys Supply, years in fact, and as such all water consumers have to play a part in the water conservation effort regardless of location.According to Dr. Luncheon, those rural communities that depend mainly on surface water for their water supplies are the ones who will be suffering the most but he did not put forward a response as to what the government would be doing about this particular issue outside of the “Interventions” already in place.The subsequent impact on the agricultural sector is being observed but it was suggested that the second sowing of crops made possible by the East Demerara Water Conservancy water reserves being released during the dry season will have to be delayed since the levels of the water in the conservancy are already at the point where gravity drainage is no longer a possibility.As such the use of pumps has to be employed but there are other demands on the water in the reserves.Current crop losses have also been taken into account and though limited by the interventions of the Government and the ingenuity of the farmers – albeit not the ingenuity of those who damage irrigation structures to divert water to their own land, the sector is still bracing itself for the possibility of losses for the year 2010.
