Barbadians are being urged to better manage their water usage and to reuse the precious commodity where possible.Senior Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office in charge of Infrastructural Projects and Town Planning Matters Dr William Duguid gave the advice last weekend during a cocktail reception to officially announce the merger of Integrated Sustainability, a Canada-based sustainable infrastructure development specialist firm and the Barbados-based water maintenance and management company Ecohesion.He said Barbados has had to take the expensive route of desalination to help deal with its water scarcity, and while Government was working on reducing incidents of dry taps, residents must “use less water, preserve water and understand that water is an important resource and understand that Barbados is one of the few water-scarce nations”.“What we had to do is spend lots of money taking salt out of water to be able to make it usable and potable but, of course, that makes it expensive. What this partnership can do is to bring those opportunities to teach people how to desalinate, to use renewable energy for desalination to make water much more affordable, and to bring those financing opportunities and to bring those new techniques and technologies so that we get better water use and [are] able to use water in a much more efficient and circular way,” Dr Duguid said.
