Recently, that is only about a month ago, the effects of El Nino was so severe for a couple of months in East New Britain and affected almost everyone in the Province. In Kuanua the dry season is called E na Keake or Keake wana. In some dialectsof Kuanua Keake wana is also pronounced keke wana. In literal Kuanua Keake wana means the sun is travelling. Now, back to the dry season in East New Britain. It affected people across the board, both the well-off and the not so well-off. It triggered off complaints in the social media, especially Facebook, about the scarcity of water. There were even posts and pictures of people waiting up to 10.00 pm for their turn to fetch water from the water wells and creeks.
The problem in East New Britain was not so much on the lack of water, but the lack of storage and distribution services provided by the Provincal Government. If anything that we have learnt from the current El Nino, it is tawa storage and distribution services.
This brief commentary is inspired by one of the World Bank's posts that i receive regularly and in part one of it appears here.
