Fiji's drought continues to worsen with reports of people having to flee their homes in the wake of forest fires through 2-thousand hectares of pineforest.
The Public Works Department is trucking water to residents in the worst-affected areas, including the western city of Lautoka, but people are complaining there is not enough to go around.
Lautoka's mayor, Rajen Goundar, says he is very angry about what he sees as the lack of government action in dealing properly with what is a regular crisis.
"For th e last seven or eight years, we have been listening to the same old crap where they have said, give us five years. After five years, there'll be no problem, and just this morning I heard the Honourable Prime Minister come on air, and he said , this sort of problem will be eliminated in five years . and for the last seven or eight years we have been hearing the same thing."
The mayor of Lautoka, Rajen Goundar.
