Nation Update: Green water affecting beaches in Barbados

Barbados is being impacted by a “pseudo sea level rise”, with unusually high water levels accelerating beach erosion and raising fresh concerns about the island’s long-term climate resilience. Director of the Coastal Zone Management Unit (CZMU), Dr Leo Brewster, said the recent dramatic erosion affecting sections of coastline around the island was being driven by delayed freshwater flows from the Amazon and Orinoco rivers out of South America, creating elevated water levels that were now disrupting the normal recovery cycle of the beaches. He was speaking in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Sun yesterday evening on Brownes Beach, Bay Street, St Michael, where a number of beachgoers have expressed concern about the dramatic erosion taking place at the popular spot. Video by Reco Moore #Barbados #BarbadosNews #YourNewsYourTimeYourWay #TheSourceMatters