Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Pacific Islands Renewable Energy Project (PIREP)
Publication Year:
2005
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Physical Description:
xii, 59 p. :: figs., Tables ; 29 cm -
Call Number
333.794159682 WAD [EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
28514
Legacy PEIN ID:
68461
General Notes
Available online|This report is based on data gathered by a PIREP team consisting of Isaia Taape, Kapuafe Lifuka, Timaio Auega and Herbert Wade with input and assistance by Mr. James Conway
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Energy development - Tuvalu
Energy sources, Renewable - Tuvalu
Energy research - Tuvalu
Conservation of energy resources - Tuvalu
Conservation of natural resources - Tuvalu
Energy consumption - Climate factors - Tuvalu
Abstract
As is the norm for atolls, the soil is low in fertility and only a narrow range of food plants can be supported. The sea is the primary source of local food. The climate is tropical to equatorial. Tuvalu has had tropical cyclones to cause serious damage but their passage is not common though storm surges, winds and heavy rain can be damaging to the low lying islands even if a cyclone does not actually go through Tuvalu. Rainfall averages 3500 mm per year with April - November lower than the rest of the year. Droughts do occur and maintaining a fresh water supply on densely populated Funafuti is increasingly a problem. The primary source is rainwater but in recent years a 65,000 1/d desalinator is also in use. Some pumping from wells is possible but water is brackish and wells can easily be over pumped and cause an incursion of salt water.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Pacific Islands Renewable Energy Project (PIREP)
Publication Year:
2005
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Physical Description:
xii, 59 p. :: figs., Tables ; 29 cm -
Call Number
333.794159682 WAD [EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
28514
Legacy PEIN ID:
68461
General Notes
Available online|This report is based on data gathered by a PIREP team consisting of Isaia Taape, Kapuafe Lifuka, Timaio Auega and Herbert Wade with input and assistance by Mr. James Conway
Record Created: 17-Nov-2005
Record Modified: 20-Sep-2022