Water crises keep coming overseas, how can we confront them?

The images of the drought currently hitting Guyana are staggering. We thought they were unimaginable. In Arawak, one of the indigenous languages, “Guiana means the land of abundant waters”, recalled Michel-Ange Jérémie, the mayor of Sinnamary during the meeting of overseas elected officials on November 18. The morning was devoted to water crises, which the majority of overseas territories are experiencing this year.

In Guyana, at the moment, the waters are no longer abundant at all. The level of the Maroni River has never been so low. Navigation there has become dangerous, the canoes carrying goods no longer circulate. “In landlocked communities, the canoe is the only means of transport, there are no roads. So the price of primary foodstuffs…

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