![]() ![]() “I like this work,” one man, Mèsidor, told me as he stood ankle deep in water, digging in the mud with his hands. ![]() Behind them, flooded rice paddies stretched to low mountains in the distance and workers picked their way along muddy berms, machetes in hand. When I visited one sunny afternoon, teenagers splashed about on the banks. ![]() Take the farming town of Verrettes, for example, hugging the bank of a small tributary of the Artibonite River, the country’s largest river. Water isn’t always a problem in Haiti, at least not everywhere. is waiting for things to quiet down in the street outside, then he is going out to find some, somewhere. That and soaring gas prices led to the current raging civil unrest. Since yesterday, he tells me, his young family has been totally without water, as have residents of several areas of Haiti’s metropolitan region. I’m not even surprised that someone in the heart of it all might not want to talk to a foreign journalist, even about something as apparently innocuous as hydrology.īut one detail P. describes the current situation: no electricity, roadblocks on every intersection, banks and businesses closed, a man shot just outside his door. Haiti has been gripped by paroxysms of unrest since 2018, the time of my last visit. “His house is in an area controlled by gangs.” I’m not comfortable writing a story about Haiti with no Haitian interviewees, I tell him, but so far no one has responded. It’s about to publish, and I’ve asked him to help me get an interview with the country’s foremost hydrologist. I’m messaging P., a Haitian friend and colleague, seeking an assist with this article. ![]()
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