Haiti . . . simply getting water to people.

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It's slow going, slower than I would have thought. I'd like to focus on the positives, what is being done, what can be done. Please help me if you can spare the time.

for example, from four days ago . . .

Companies Send Aid to Haiti, Wall Street Journal, CHRIS HERRING and DANA MATTIOLI, Jan. 15, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... management
“Other companies are sending water relief. Coca-Cola Co. is donating $1 million to the American Red Cross and said it would provide water and other drinks through its bottler in the neighboring Dominican Republic. The PepsiCo Foundation said it would give $1 million to the relief effort and would allocate bottled water and Gatorade to disaster victims through its bottlers in Florida and the Dominican Republic. Nestle Waters North America pledged $1 million in bottled water products, most of which will also be shipped over from nearby islands in the Caribbean.”

And have some of these donations made it in there?

And what else is being done, can be done---the positive, activist side.

An average person can go for around six to eight weeks without food. Water should be a much higher priority since the human body needs it right away.

Water, and a sanitary place to go to the bathroom, are probably the top priorities right now.

yeah, the essential utilities of a city, water and sewage.


Now, Haiti has been a poor country, many of these people may not be average people but instead may be malnourished. So food is probably the second priority.

and from the same above article
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... management

" . . . This weekend [Jan. 16th and 17th] GE is making 10 solar-powered water-purification units to send to Haiti once it gets clearance from the Port-au-Prince airport. It's working with government and airport contacts to get a slot to land there, but doesn't know when that will be. . . "

Military to use more runways for Haiti aid effort, published in Houston Chronicle, PAULINE JELINEK and ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press Writer © 2010 The Associated Press, Jan. 19, 2010.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/ ... 24814.html

“ . . . The military has separately dropped some 15,000 liters of water and 14,500 meals into a large field near the Port-au-Prince airport that is controlled by troops. The troops have distributed those rations to the population, officials said. . . ”

Another way is to try and fix the existing water plants. And it's just like anything around your house. The repair might go smoothly, it might not.

So you run multiple tracks.

You do ALL OF THE ABOVE, and then some.

They should be sending these things: http://www.lifesaversystems.com/

Get water, get food, get them support to rebuild a new stable economic base, and Haiti will do just fine.

they were sent solar powered bibles now.

whilst i know that the christians who did this probably thought it would help them...i still see it as a waste of money better spent on food water and shelter.

how long is it estimated for full recovery?

Haiti has not had a full recovery since it was founded 200 years ago.

ruveyn

I like that!


And yet another way is . . .

Agencies race to provide clean water in Haiti, published in SFGate, Rob Stein, Washington Post, Saturday, January 16, 2010.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... z0dCsFOk0S
" . . . The 1,700-pound, $25,000 systems, which can run on diesel fuel or solar power, can purify water from lakes, streams and wells to produce 10 gallons of water a minute - enough to supply up to about 5,000 people a day. . . "


Again, multiple ways. Yes to all the above.

Well, we in the United States supported the dictator 'Baby Doc' and before that his Dad.

Yeah, I suppose the people in Haiti could have still engaged in nonviolent political movements, but we didn't exactly make things easy for them!

Haiti needs more support and guidance from the global community... If dictatorship is the only solution to internal and external peace, even though it's bad, what to do? It's justified.

Haiti has plenty of water. It has plenty of land to produce food.

Water supplies were not developed because Coke and Pepsi sell bottled water there.

Food production was not developed because basic foods come from the US, and local land ownership was given to outside interests.

The government is just a front for outside interests. Haiti is a captive market.

Not for long, China was the first to have a rescue mission on the ground, about a day after they heard their delegation at the UN Headquarters was trapped in an earthquake, they had search and rescue digging through the rubble. Cuba had 300 doctors there before the quake. Chavez is sending fuel.

The European response has been weak, France forgiving debts, Coke and Pepsi making the next million in bottled water free, as they pick up ten times as much from UN bought water. America of course sent men with guns to maintain security, which so far includes the airport and the government building.

Search and rescue went to the best hotels, government buildings, UN Headquarters, where the international population lived and worked. Haitians were left to their own devices.

A week later food and water for 100,000 a day are getting in, where the need is for several million.

The American response is as good as they do for their own, the Katrina Plan. Half of New Orleans is still gone.

The only people who have dealt with such massive disasters are the Chinese. After the Algerian quake, the only building left standing were built by the Canadians, but the rebuild of the country was contracted to the Chinese.

To the Chinese, Haiti is rich, and sparsely populated. They need only wait till we run out of money and will. For America to continue funding Haiti, we have to go deeper in debt to the Chinese.

Just the simple stuff, food, water, tents, medical care, Haiti will cost $20,000,000 a day for years. Replacing housing runs into billions, then there is the lack of an economy, there and here. The medical need will never end. Hospitals, schools, are gone.

The world is an ever changing place.

Wait! you forgot the big story! The US has occupied Haiti, so anything we do there is evil.
Heck, we probably even caused the earthquake...