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Haiti - Environment : The country could have crossed the alert threshold 08/07/2015 12:50:48
During a panel that brought together including: the Cuban Minister Elba Rosa Perez, the Minister and President of Environmental Tribunal ofSantiago, Rafael Asenjo, the Secretary General of Hydro-Meteorological Service of Vietnam Tran Hong Thai; the Deputy Minister of Environment and Tourism of Namibia, Tommy Nambahu and Dr. Gisela Alonso, president of the Agency for Environment of Cuba, Dominique Pierre, Minister of the Environment has highlighted a series of problems that Haiti confronts. In his speech, he said that at present all environmental indicators "seem to have crossed the alert threshold," given the deforestation rates [less than 2% forest cover of Haiti - Source WB] ; the erosion of arable land, destruction of watersheds and coastal in particular. Recall that each year 37 million m3 of arable land disappear in the ocean because of soil erosion. On about 40 billion cubic m3 annual rainfall, only 10% of water are exploited in Haiti (8% for irrigation and 2% for other human uses). 46% of rainfall is evaporated into the atmosphere, 8% infiltrates aquifers "ground water" and 36% of precipitation falls in the oceans [source Dr. Nyamkona Gonomy, UEH]) He also stressed the consequences of environmental degradation, whose the economic losses in 2012 in Haiti in agriculture amounted to over 700 million, sums lost that could have been devoted to social development initiatives for the well being of the population. SL/ HaitiLibre
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