The supervision of floods and natural disasters.

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Just a year later the Yangtze flooded, causing something like 5,500 deaths.

Calls on the Member States to assist the Republic of Djibouti in its struggle against the disastrous consequences of the recent flood at both the social and economic levels.

Not all natural hazards were disasters fires, floods, earthquakes and drought all existed as part of natural cycles.

(b) Detecting and monitoring floods, using data supplied by satellites of the Meteor 3M, Resurs DK and Monitor E types.

Furthermore, traditional telecommunications systems were often severely affected by disasters such as earthquakes, floods or hurricanes.

And increasing intensity of droughts and floods will severely impact breadbaskets of the world, causing massive famines and economic decline.

The 719 heavy rainfall caused heavy disaster to many cities of Hebei Province and resulted in the flood disaster of some regions in Hebei province. During the period, some people were dead and missing.

The nutritional state of the population in some regions is poor and it gets worse at times of drought and flooding.

The cargo turnover growth rate in July fell back 3.6 percentage and floods on these areas have a certain impact on traffic.

Once the relief operations had come to an end, several committed social workers decided to continue working in the area in order to rehabilitate local communities and mitigate the long term damage that the floods had caused.

A joint flood response management team, comprising representatives of the United Nations agencies, donors and non governmental organizations, was established to coordinate the response of the international community to the needs of the affected population in the flooded areas.

And surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him Selah.

2. The past year was dominated by a massive flood emergency in the Juba and Shabelle Valleys in southern and central Somalia, brought on by heavy rains in October and December 1997 and compounded by the overflowing of the Juba and Shabelle Rivers.

Sheng Laiyun pointed out that there was a special case in July, with serious floods, high temperature and hot weather which have brought some impact on production and operation of some areas.

China is also a disaster prone developing country. This year, floods alone have affected more than 200 million people and resulted in direct economic losses of 17 billion.

Communication of 1 July 1996 from the Colombian National Indigenous Organization addressed to the Special Rapporteur.

7. Welcomes with appreciation the assistance provided by Member States, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat, the World Food Programme and all other international and non governmental organizations in response to the appeals by the Government of Timor Leste during the floods and drought

The most conventional use of radar data is the recognition of flooded areas by the dark signature of still water in a radar image associated with the all weather capability of the instrument.

Whereas natural disasters included floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides and certain types of widely spreading infectious diseases, human induced disasters included explosions, armed conflicts, motor and aircraft accidents, chemical spills etc.

Recent statements to that effect by Second Prime Minister Hun Sen are encouraging.

In China alone, there was an annual loss of approximately 20 billion because of floods.

. Since 1960, hurricanes, floods, droughts, desertification and landslides in Latin America and the Caribbean had killed over 200,000 people, disrupted the lives of some 100 million others and caused over US 50 billion in property damage.

One member of his Mission had recently received seven summonses for the same offence on the same day.

Some Parties proposed measures to reduce mitigate the risks of floods and drought.

Expressing its grave concern and sympathy over the human casualties caused by the worst natural disasters and their devastating impact on the socio economic situation in the Economic Cooperation Organization region, which is prone to disasters such as earthquakes, floods and drought,

In the meantime, an operational monitoring and assessment system on major natural disasters has been set up which is able to carry out real time monitoring on an instant basis in case of major natural disasters of floods, contributing to disaster mitigation and relief and minimization of damages by providing relevant data on disasters.

Xi Jinping said Prime Minister Hun Sen is a good friend, old friend, and true friend of the Chinese party and people.

As temperatures have increased, the sea level s rise has accelerated from one centimeter per decade in the early twentieth century to more than three centimeters in each of the last two decades an overall increase of nearly 20 centimeters since 1900. While the numbers may seem small, the rise significantly increases the likelihood of severe flooding along vulnerable coasts worldwide.

There were several incidents of actual and attempted looting during the flood operation.

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Food aid assistance was provided to an additional 10 million people suffering the consequences of drought and floods in 1997.

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Projects for improving water, sewerage and drainage in five refugee camps in Lebanon were completed.

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This occurs naturally, for example, in the case of tree trunks standing in swampy, water logged areas.

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