Kaitara explains that there is enough precipitation during the rainy season (November to March) — with average annual rainfall at 2560 millimeters — to carry the country through the entire dry season, if only the rainwater were properly stored.
且不論進出口貿易的嚴重失衡有何問題（吉國是藉由國際金援及提用「收益平衡儲備基金」來平衡），龐大的進口需求意味著島國追求「現代化」的渴望，代價卻是在未考慮環境承受力與建立廢棄物處理模式時，已經被滾滾商品的洪流所淹沒。