Fiji 2011
Most of the water for Barotu village comes from a forested watershed a few kilometers inland. Pastor Nikola Serewai describes features of the landscape.
Barotu, a village of about 200 people in 44 houses on Viti Levu Bay, Fiji, about a two hour drive north from Suva.
More photos and reporting coming soon about how two Fijian villages are trying to maintain their way of life and natural water supply as population grows and climate changes. These photographs made in cooperation with the PACE Program, University of South Pacific.
Families share the water supply in Barotu a village on Viti Levu Bay, Fiji.
A cement dike protecting the village of Barotu from high river and tide levels is sometimes breached, flooding the homes.
The village grows taro -- here cut for market -- cassava, rice, coconut, mangoes, pawpaw (papaya) to eat and sell.
A researcher from University of South Pacific, Suva, interviews the Barotu village nurse about community health and sanitation, part of an assessment of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change.
Measuring a roof to determine how much rainwater could be collected from it, University of South Pacific professor Leone Limalevu researches ways for Barotu village to maximize its water supply.
Most of the water for Barotu village comes from a forested watershed a few kilometers inland.
More photos and reporting coming soon about how two Fijian villages are trying to maintain their way of life and natural water supply as population grows and climate changes. These photographs made in cooperation with the PACE Program, University of South Pacific.
Every six days, the head man of Barotu village calls the men for a community work project. Here they dig out drainage channels along a pathway used by school children to keep heavy rains from flooding the path.