These are all positive steps, however, the implementation of the secondary water storage tank regulations and the waste water treatment plant requirements need to be revisited in order to maximize the benefits with respect to water availability and economy. Current regulations require that rain water collected from roofs only be used for secondary uses such as irrigation and tertiary treated water from treatment plants be put into the ground. Our Caribbean neighbors are not as lucky as Barbados in that much of their water is derived from surface water runoff and localized rainwater collection. In Barbados we have been spoiled with an apparent abundant supply of good potable water. I spent my early life on a large oil camp in Trinidad where we had several large lakes primarily for use in the cooling towers in the adjacent oil refinery but also piped to all the residential properties, club house and sporting facilities and schools. I grew up knowing that only water from taps within a building was drinkable and you ‘DO NOT DRINK THE TAP WATER IN THE YARD’. The ‘inside’ potable water was supplied to the homes and other facilities from a water purification plant that drew source water from one of the lakes. The dual water distribution system worked well and I expect was efficient and economical. The lake water was largely drawn from a neighboring river (of questionable quality) down stream of many other population areas and also collected rainwater runoff from all the buildings, roads, plus general storm water runoff. The lakes provided a wonderful play ground where we would swim, fish, and hunt alligators. Many years later as a young man recently qualified I visited my boy hood home and all my old haunts. It was only then that I realized that the concrete structures that we would play on and jump off of into the lakes were septic tanks that discharges directly to the lakes.