Today’s Situation

Haiti is an environmental disaster
Drought and deforestation destroyed the economy and affects neighbors.
The lack of ground cover means the rain runs off in destructive sheets,
eroding the hills but contaminating the lowlands as it rushes to the sea.
Lack of potable water weakens the population by spreading disease.
When farming is impossible the people become urban refugees.
Flight to the cities leads to flight from the country.

The northwestern peninsula of Haiti is the most defoliated desert in the Antilles. Agricultural quantities of good water year round could enable a return to the land, re-establishment of ground cover and crops, halting the exodus to nearby countries.

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