Water: the Country Will Be Dry in 75 Days

While the heavy showers not the country this week Maurice risk of experiencing a disastrous situation. Moreover, the country has water for 75 days that is to say until the end of February or early March.

According to the prediction of weather, heavy rains are expected in mid December or later in the week. This week will be the most critical of all time says one side of the CWA. One can imagine situations in which people will end up with this critical period that lasts. Being considered the worst in the body. If it does not rain this week, the CWA will be in a situation of extreme gravity, they say.

For Maurice to overcome this impasse, the country must receive more than 30 millimeters of rain for several hours and this for several days. These showers will fill the tanks. The land must be saturated. A Sunday Mare aux Vacoas showed 26.1% of the filling, Midlands 69.9%, 57.2% Piton du Milieu Mare Longue and 71.2%. 

Even the CWA pumps installed in various rivers of the country can not function as it n 'there is no water. The agency is putting in place all possible options. If in normal times, 120 000 m3 of water are distributed from Mare aux Vacoas now the CWA can only treat 40 000 m3 of water. Mare Longue provides 25 000 m3 of water and the various rivers some 10 000 m3 of water to supply the Central Plateau in water. 

Bhishek Narain, the head of communication of the CWA told the that the authorities are preparing for the worst . "We are putting all possible resources in place but these efforts will not be sufficient if it does not rain in torrents," he said