I note your ar­ti­cle of De­cem­ber 26-'Christ­mas Wa­ter Woes in South' and lament the long his­to­ry of poor wa­ter sup­ply in Trinidad and To­ba­go. The sit­u­a­tion is par­tic­u­lar­ly lam­en­ta­ble as to­day's tech­nol­o­gy pro­vides the means to en­sure that this could so eas­i­ly be per­ma­nent­ly erad­i­cat­ed.

I am a se­nior con­sul­tant with DACC Glob­al (http://www.dac­cas­so­ci­ates.com/Home­page.as­px ; http://www.dac­c­glob­al.com/ ), a US-based lead­ing provider of al­ter­na­tive en­er­gy so­lu­tions, in par­tic­u­lar so­lar en­er­gy so­lu­tions to wa­ter prob­lems.

You will note from the DACC Web site the var­i­ous coun­tries in which DACC is en­gaged in en­sur­ing a long term and sus­tain­able so­lu­tion to agri­cul­tur­al and do­mes­tic wa­ter de­mands. DACC have the means to in­tro­duce rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go to the fund­ing pro­vid­ed by the UN Mil­len­ni­um De­vel­op­ment Goals Ini­tia­tive (http://www.un.org/mil­len­ni­um­goals/bkgd.shtml).

One stat­ed goal of the UN MDG is to 'Halve, by 2015, the pro­por­tion of the (world) pop­u­la­tion with­out sus­tain­able ac­cess to safe drink­ing wa­ter and ba­sic san­i­ta­tion'.

The fund­ing pro­vid­ed by the UN MDG is 100 per cent sourced from the UN, US Aid and oth­er donor or­gan­i­sa­tions. The DACC so­lu­tion pro­vides a com­plete sys­tem of so­lar pan­els, so­lar pumps, stor­age tanks and fil­tra­tion sys­tems that pu­ri­fy wa­ter to in­ter­na­tion­al stan­dards.

The sys­tem can be in­stalled at drought prone lo­ca­tions or in ar­eas which are yet to re­ceive wa­ter lines. The his­toric use of re­ten­tion ponds has re­lied on rain­fall in line with reg­u­lar weath­er pat­terns. With chang­ing weath­er pat­terns now a fact, re­ten­tion ponds no longer pro­vide a long term so­lu­tion to wa­ter sup­ply.

The DACC so­lar gen­er­at­ed pumps source wa­ter di­rect­ly from the wa­ter ta­ble, a more sus­tain­able source less re­liant on rain­fall at reg­u­lar pat­terns. DACC is cur­rent­ly en­gaged in ad­vanced dis­cus­sions with sev­er­al Cari­com coun­tries and oth­ers in Africa and Asia, who grasp the ad­van­tages of so­lar en­er­gy (im­por­tant­ly less re­liance on dwin­dling fos­sil fu­els) and the fund­ing pro­vid­ed through the UN MDG.

I am a na­tion­al of Trinidad and will be pleased to dis­cuss fur­ther how DACC can help en­sure that long term wa­ter so­lu­tions can be im­ple­ment­ed. I will be pleased to show how the Gov­ern­ment can gen­er­ate rev­enue through car­bon cred­its earned on low­er car­bon emis­sions and how long term em­ploy­ment can be gen­er­at­ed through the in­stal­la­tion and on­go­ing se­cu­ri­ty of the pumps.

I trust that the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties or al­ter­na­tive­ly, lo­cal pri­vate en­ter­prise will seize this op­por­tu­ni­ty to join the world (2013 has been des­ig­nat­ed In­ter­na­tion­al Year of Wa­ter by the UN) to be­gin re­solv­ing the prob­lems blight­ing wa­ter sup­ply in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

An­tho­ny D Go­sine

se­nior con­sul­tant, DACC Glob­al

goin­t­er­llc@live.com