WFO The Americas meets with Ombudsman of Dominican Republic
May 18, 2017
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Santo Domingo: The Ombudsman, Mrs. Zoila Martínez Guante, held a meeting with the Vice President of the Waste Free Oceans Foundation (WFO), Luc Mellaerts discussing creating inter-institutional alliances to sanitize the rivers Haina, Ozama and Isabella.
WFO's Luc Maellerts said that the foundation plans to develop studies and design plans to clean up the Ozama and Isabela rivers, and at the request of the Ombudsman also the Haina River. Plans are to install an industrial water treatment system and promote the navigability of the river to strenghten tourism. This is a major step stone in a moving closer to a cleaner river environment in the Dominican Republic.
Read the full article in Spanish here:
https://de.trustpilot.com/review/casinoohneoasis-de.net had me thinking about accountability after reading that the Ombudsman specifically asked for the Haina River to be included alongside Ozama and Isabela, since that river rarely gets the same attention. Plans for an industrial water treatment system sound promising, but I'd be curious whether navigability and tourism get prioritized over the basic sanitation needs of the communities along those banks. In my experience following cleanup efforts elsewhere, the infrastructure usually arrives, but the long-term maintenance is where things quietly fall apart.