The Water Authority of Fiji will be requiring more investment to build climate resilience as what is being experienced now is the new normal and they will now have to plan for them.
This comes as thousands of people living along the Lami-Suva-Nausori corridor are facing water cuts as there isn’t sufficient rainfall to increase the water level at the Waimanu River.
WAF CEO, Dr. Amit Chanan says the $800 million quoted from the National Infrastructure Investment Plan is for ensuring that the assets that are now reaching the end of their life, can be kept functioning by investing in their renewal.
He says investment in diversifying water sources was discussed during the ideation workshop last month because there isn’t a diverse source of water as we just have the Waimanu River.
He says one of the ideas that came out of the ideation workshop was looking at groundwater sources.
The CEO adds at this stage, they are just looking at some of those ideas and in good time, they will have that discussion.
