I am reasured after reading the article below that the Sports Park project has been assisted by Mr Donald Buchanan. As the article states (see #7) Mr Buchanan supports sustainable development in Jamaica, thus the Sports Park.

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:f-fAGvChOgQJ:www.businesseventsja.com.jm/fi les/BuchananPresentation_0.pdf+%22donald+buchanan%22+environment&hl=en&ct=clnk&c d=7&gl=ca

I congratulate Mr Buchanan on his firm stance which will help guide development in our area.

You are serious, I presume. Buchanan is no longer in office. However, he was when the canal was started.

Yes, I read the entire document. Being from the U.S., I am quite accustomed to reading in between the lines of political speeches. I even used to ghostwrite them.

Well we now have the water that was promised and we have the housing. We are getting there.

..which is led by the current Member of Parliament who will certainly be in tune with current planetary runnings and guide us accordingly in issues that demand bipartisan working out of directions. Also understanding that sustainable development is not ensuring sustained cash flow; by any means that is. Certainly not in ways contra to Livity.

I assume Mr Buchanan meant what he said M. Robertson.

And Terry, I hope we are (re: 'getting there') not getting to where I am now, smooth, roads, food galore, jobs, water, bling bling....
long face people, record levels of depression, high ginnalship, no respect for Livity. No thanks.

We have water?? Where? In Treasure Beach? I must have missed it.

Company secret.

Hint #1: I hope it does not contain agricultural chemicals from cultivations up the hill.

I look at containment, pumping and quality control of water differently when these features can be designed into a building. Water catchment, storage, pumping, cleansing, recycling and energy independence.

Not the ponds, although with permission granted and appropriate pipes and cleaners in place it would not be rocket science to distribute cleansed to beyond WHO standards pond water when it is there.

Not desalination, although if push come to shove solar distillation and/or reverse osmosis systems are doable.

Actually all of the above but my alternative source may not be appropriate everywhere.

I now realise you were replying to the post by Terry LOL.

My comments re water independence still stand.

We atayed in the Frenchmans area and water was in the pipes only 3 or 4 days a week. I was told this had been standard operating procedure for some time. To me, that does not sound as if the water problem has been solved.