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Old 08-26-2008, 09:08 PM
Texas Bill Texas Bill is offline
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J-D;

While I will agree with you about there being water sources aplenty, I am reminded that Dominicans continue to denude the mountains in the same manner as do the Haitians, resulting in over-erosion which eventually clogs the rivers and decreases the water flow. That, alone,and coupled with normal "run-off" erosion, will eventually fill in behind the dams and render them ineffective as catchment basins for electrical production. While that may be many years in the future, do you believe that any Dominican government would have the foresight to enforce any anti-deforestation laws effectively? They haven't been successful so far. In fact even the Senators and Delegates have been party to the de-forestation of public lands.
I have given up on expecting ANY effective government actions which will solve the numerous problems, environmental, infrastructural, social and economic that the various governments have been the direct cause of.

TB

Last edited by Texas Bill; 08-26-2008 at 09:13 PM.. Reason: That bloody spacebar again. It just doesn't work!!
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