20 May 2019

Honiara water supplies disrupted by logging

From , 5:01 am on 20 May 2019

Water supplies in the Solomon Islands capital, Honiara, are being increasingly affected by logging upstream from the catchment.

Rapacious logging has seen the country's forests cleared by both legal and illegal logging with little environmental oversight.

And last week, two logging sites upstream from the Kongalai catchment - where 40 percent of Honiara's water comes from - saw that intake shut down.

Solomons Water chief executive Ian Gooden told Jamie Tahana that saw hundreds off residents go without water.

There were reports from inspections carried out on site by Solomon Water of possible sources of the turbidity (dirty water) at Kongulai Water Source.

There were reports from inspections carried out on site by Solomon Water of possible sources of the turbidity (dirty water) at Kongulai Water Source. Photo: SIWA