In Dominica, Diminished Rivers Among Climate Change’s Effects

Bernard Wiltshire, president and founder of Waitkbuli Ecological Foundation (WEF), stated that the Roseau River is drying up, like all the others on the island.  “They’ve been drying up because people have been using land without concern for the rivers,” he said. He added that “the river has lost far more than two-thirds of its volume of water, and this pattern is repeated throughout the island,” Wiltshire added.
Former national disaster coordinator Cecil Shillingford told IPS that local environmentalists have long expressed concern that the island’s rivers are drying up. He believes that development had allowed river banks to become heavily habitable, along with the effects of climate change.
One of Dominica’s efforts to combat the impact of climate chage is the recently formulated Low-Carbon Climate-Resilient Development Strategy, which identifies areas that climate change is most likely to affect – namely agriculture, fisheries and ecotourism.

Source: IPS