Africa-Press – Mauritius. Almost everywhere, there is a consensus that the world is sailing in the same boat and that by dint of taking to the water it has started to rock on an ocean tossed about by hostile winds.
Here and elsewhere, the captains scramble like devils to get their boat to port. Here, the management of the few resources available to the island is a major concern for everyone.
It is in this spirit that we take the liberty of approaching the Ministry of Public Utilities to replace a rusty pipe that is leaking on the road from the hill to Pointe aux Canonniers.
Several locals have called 170, so far, and after a month there was a DIY repair with rubber to limit the damage. The rotten pipe is leaking in five places and the water flows happily day and night.
The garbage truck had the bad idea to run over the rotten pipe and the leak started again. The solution is to simply replace this hose and avoid this waste that everyone has been seeing with regret for the past two months.
It’s mind boggling! On the other hand, the entire population would benefit from an awareness campaign on the use of water for domestic use. Avoid the uninterrupted wide open faucet in the kitchen sink and in the bathroom. In South Africa, hotels remind passing visitors that water is a precious commodity in the country and recommend that it be used sparingly.
Here, in addition to the construction of hotels galore, too numerous along the coast, some have equipped each bungalow with a private swimming pool and demanded a road closure in Trou-aux-Biches, for example, to create an exclusive place.
between luxury tourists. An exaggerated attention that astonishes passing visitors, a reflection of an inordinate pride centered on a ‘between us’ that the authors of this idea taken out of their hat one day to reinvest in the profits of the company are fond of.
Europeans have this unfortunate tendency to turn on the tap wide for the duration of the shower or in front of the sink morning and evening, to treat energy as an object made available to them for free use.
This waste can be avoided by a small sign in the bathroom of hotel rooms urging future visitors to respect moderate water use. They will understand because the tourists of today do not subscribe to this behavior of lords in exotic lands who have fed those who think they are happy.
Raising awareness among residents as well would prevent the carelessness of cicadas in times of plenty and wailing in dry periods. Orienting fishermen to fish farming in the face of reduced income is one example of a way out when hard times build up.
They can only benefit from an innovative initiative represented by this type of micro enterprise. This allows them to keep their sea legs at sea and to ensure the continuity of their activity on land through a lucrative investment that will always find takers on the local market.
Living off from day to day has consequences that need to be reviewed in the long run. Barely three weeks after confinement, the difficulty in sourcing vegetables was felt among pure vegetarians and others who are 80-90% pure.
Considering the prohibitive prices displayed in supermarkets (when it was displayed!) Which greatly benefited from the situation as the only sellers, people quickly found the solution by purchasing directly from farmers or from small businesses.
stalls along the roads. This departure from the rule drew a few comments with supporting photos. The long lines and the reduced supply of vegetables in supermarkets have chilled many people. There is no way veggies and the like will turn to the frozen chunks that are plentiful on the supermarket shelves.
The unexploited land could be used to develop agriculture by the planters while the need is expressed more clearly to make available to individuals the abandoned fallow land covered with wild plants, thorns, lianas and used as dumping grounds for bulky objects in the fields.
villages and residential areas along the coasts. This is a common practice that would benefit from being spread. Very often the owners live elsewhere on the island or abroad and agree in all good sense to let the neighbors cultivate the land.
It is up to the Ministry of Agriculture and the District Councils to set up this type of land use that exists in other countries. All you have to do is identify the land and contact the owners, and also make the state land available to cultivators until other well-intentioned uses are clarified by the authorities.
The owners have nothing to lose, and neither does the state. It will be a plus in a project accentuated by the pandemic to move towards food self-sufficiency.
The zucchini plantation – including a 250-kilogram theft from a field heralded among other vegetable thefts – appears to be aimed at supermarkets and hotels.
This vegetable does not exist on the local market; is highly prized in Mediterranean and European cuisine, and popularizing it further would add variety and taste to local cuisine.
The observation of an interruption in the production of goat cheese by a few Italians for the needs of their restaurant and store gives rise to reflection once we have tasted the goat’s milk distributed by a goat owner from the start of the confinement.
Why not develop a more large-scale artisanal manufacturing which could satisfy the appetite of a limited clientele to this day but which could expand over the years? Widen the offer and taste something other than that displayed on the big billboards flattering “the taste of Mauritius” for years, a salty cheese and not so great as a taste.
Cheese making is not high tech that we know of. We can only welcome the great self-sufficiency project for the moment, hoping that the intention will be followed by concrete actions.
Distress and poverty are resurfacing more and more, the theft of vegetables is on the increase. A hunger that has won over stray dogs and brown cats is eating away at people in precarious situations.
There is also an impatience to get back to work and a weariness of a long-lasting confinement which squeezes freedoms. The general public’s support for the measures taken by the Government has been total. One wonders, however, about the large deployment of gabelous last Sunday on the roads.
In the north, was it to stick an astounding fine on any plucked pigeons? Surveillance cameras and all-out tickets for breaches of the highway code, a measure to fill the government coffers of the years 2007-2014 by imitating a French measure of the time with, as a bonus, in the package, the very classy model of the Rolex watch.
Covid has had the devastating effect across the world of emptying government coffers and the pockets of low-income taxpayers. With a crown of thorns on his head, the world turns in circles in an almost Christlike passion. But each crisis opens the floodgates of knowledge in science, medicine and technology and arouses great passions of exploration and discovery.
The reality is that the solution will come not from any entity perched in the sky but from the resources that flow from the energies available to the earth, the raw materials and the passion to innovate and create that drives people’s minds.
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