After centuries of deforestation the island is washing into the sea.
A strong-armed woman, skirts hitched up, beats her washing into submission against a stone.
The wave of mergers rippling through the corporate world is also washing into the nonprofit sector.
Those remaining goldsmiths rely on more efficient machinery, and fewer flecks are washing into the sewers.
In China, farm chemicals washing into the sea are being blamed for massive blooms of algae.
In England the otter disappeared dramatically between the 1950s and 1970s because of persecution and pesticides washing into waterways.
Super Heavy was Stewart's idea, inspired by the sounds washing into his home in St Ann's Bay, Jamaica.
In Cuba, muddy, rain-swollen waters overflowed a dam, washing into hundreds of homes and over highways, and knocking out electricity and telephone service.
Also Yorktown has demonstrated a documented inability to deal adequately with its effluent, he added, with a history of raw sewage overflows washing into the watershed.
The reef is said to face several threats, including climate change, nutrients washing into the sea, and the destructive crown-of-thorns starfish.
And the authorities hope it will not get any easier, with international agencies now lining up to tackle the flood of items washing into the EU and beyond.
