Over 1,300 people from 286 households, spanning ten villages in Moturiki will no longer have to rely on rainwater and village wells for their daily water needs after the commissioning of the Moturiki Water Project.
While commissioning the project, Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says this project means every girl, boy, woman and man on Moturiki now has access to a sustainable, regular, and safe water supply.
He says his government funded this $3.2 million dollar project for one very simple reason which is that the Fijian people remain their number one priority. Bainimarama says as the climate crisis continues to wreak havoc across the Pacific and our beloved nation, the vulnerable are feeling the immediate brunt.
He says from longer and more severe dry spells, where water becomes a scarce commodity, to brutal, intensifying cyclones that destroy everything in their path, it is no secret that the environment around us is changing rapidly.
He says there is nothing more important to them than our people, our natural environment, and our God-given resources and this is why they work every single day to leave no one behind; this is why they have spent millions on adapting to the changing climate; and in bringing clean, piped water to the villages of Savuna, Nasesara, Navuti, Nasauvuki, Wawa, Uluibau, Daku, Naicabecabe, Niubasaga and Yanuca.
Bainimarama says in the last few years, they have also undertaken similar projects in Galoa and Malake Islands – introducing piped water to approximately 5,450 Fijians.
The Prime Minister says it is astonishing that some of our maritime islands were having to carry and find water in much the same way our ancestors did centuries ago and no Government in Fiji’s history ever cared enough to take the initiative to change this.
