The subject of the wet season crops up in conversation regularly.\u00a0 Not so much for the potential humanitarian crisis, but just for a change from the relentless dry.\u00a0 Normally, I would check my facts with a meteorology service, but it seems like it has rained about twice in the last 8 months.<\/p>\n
From about a month ago, the humidity ramped up but although there has been the odd afternoon with dark clouds, there has been nothing.<\/p>\n
Maybe I should get out more but I have still not seen a water storage dam in the country yet.\u00a0 Groundwater appears to be an very important resource.<\/p>\n
Anyway, a result of the endless dry period is bare hills.\u00a0 These are the same bare hills that I could hardly believe possible when I first arrived in the wet season. The ground is gravelly and where there is no gravel, powdery bulldust.<\/p>\n
So this is what the people in the IDP camps face.\u00a0 Bulldust plus a couple of deluges and they will turn into mud and sanitation will be a nightmare issue.\u00a0 The deluges themselves may drive some of them back to their old homes (if they still exist).\u00a0 Yeah, it will be difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The subject of the wet season crops up in conversation regularly.\u00a0 Not so much for the potential humanitarian crisis, but just for a change from the relentless dry.\u00a0 Normally, I would check my facts with a meteorology service, but it … Continue reading