Water projects are not easy to implement in Timor-Leste. Challenges of topography and weather combine to frustrate the best laid plans. Almost half of Timor-Leste’s 15,000 sq/km land area has a slope of greater than 40 degrees, making it scenically beautiful but extremely difficult to implement infrastructure programs. Added to this are increasingly unpredictable wet seasons where both rivers and mountain sides can turn into torrents of water so that roads are impassible, sometimes for months at a time.

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