
Caribbean water roundup: CARICOM-EU financing deal, Jamaica water moratorium

The Caribbean Community (Caricom) signed a 50mn-euro (US$56.4mn) financing agreement with the EU under the latter's Caribbean investment initiative to fund water and sanitation projects in the region this year.
EU financing will also go to transport infrastructure, private sector development, renewable energy, climate change adaptation, environmental protection, and social infrastructure, the Jamaica information service reported.
The deal was one of six financial cooperation agreements (115mn euros in total) the two parties signed on Tuesday.
The EU remains the largest source of grant financing to the Caribbean, according to
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Jamaica's water authority WRA has imposed a moratorium on the extraction of water from the Rio Cobre basin to prevent future shortages in the face of real estate construction in the area, local paper The Gleaner reported.
The decision comes over concerns about the sustainability of the water supply for the island's southeast parish of St Catherine, where the real estate development
A water reallocation agreement between the national irrigation commission (NIC) and water
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