'Analysis of the Bottled Water Industry Essay\r'

'The shortage of potable water supply on some islands in the Maldives has been described as â€Å"serious” by the national disaster caution centre (NDMC). There be currently 12 islands which have been facing water shortages since mid-February, according to Moosa Ali Kaleyfaan, lieutenant director general of the NDMC. The NDMC has supplied 763 tons of water to octonary islands, but four more islands [… ] are in desperate need of water, he say. â€Å"The main causality is it hasn’t rained for a long time it’s the wry season,” said Moosa.\r\nâ€Å"Even more islands are believed to face this problem. The department of meteorology has forecast the dry season will continue until June [2009]. The NDMC has spent an estimated US$60,000 to supply water to the 12 islands. â€Å"I am very upset with the government beca lend oneself we need water,” said 42-year old Jameela Aboobakuru from Gaafaru. â€Å"We ran out of water, so we borrowed water fr om our brother. When he ran out of water we started buying bottled water import from virile’. ” She said her 12-member family was spending US$22 a day to buy bottled water for intoxication and cooking; their daily income, she added, was only US$26.\r\nOn another island, Gulhi, Ahmed Ibrahim, the island office assistant director, said islanders had been trade bottles water from the capital as well as in jerry deposes. â€Å"They are getting water somehow,” he said, â€Å"but the island needs a permanent termination to this problem like piped desalinated water. ” Kaleyfaan agreed, saying although water was supplied to the islands from Male’, it was necessary to seek a long-term ascendant such the installation of a desalination kit and boodle on every island. We are already in the process of installing a desalination arrange in a boat, so that in emergencies we can supply water by travelling surrounded by islands,” he said. [… ] Al most 100 per cent of islanders use rainwater as the main source of beverage and cooking water. In [the capital] Male, 100 per cent of the race has access to piped desalinated water. After the 2004 tsunami, 38 islands were provided desalination plants by UN that are operated daily or on fate basis.\r\n'