Rain monitor – BWA officials ready to put management plan in place if needed

Barbados Advocate

OFFICIALS from the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) are carefully watching the lack of rainfall in Barbados and are prepared to put a management plan in place if the need arises.

So says BWA General Manager, Denis Yearwood, who was speaking to the media recently following a meeting with pensioners of the BWA at Solidarity House.

“We haven’t felt the effects in a serious way as yet, but we are still a little early into the dry season and we are monitoring the situation very closely and noting development in other countries.
“We have a Drought Management Plan which we would have to activate, but we don’t see the need so far. Essentially, it involves things you would do and ask the public to do in the event of drought.

We would ask the public to conserve and be internally monitoring our levels and making certain adjustment to the systems,” he explained.
“Traditionally, March is the driest month in the year. I don’t know if it will be that way this year because of climate change and the strange weather patterns that have been emerging, so we have to be watching to see if it will get progressively drier. 

As March approaches and we see the signs getting into March, we will take action. We cannot wait until the dry spell is upon us to act,” he stated.