We should be looking more extensively into technologies that can be used now to limit the effects of the flooding in the coming months. Please feel free to share links and stories which could contribute to an understanding of what can be done.
Kamil
Photoblogs describe the flooding in different ways. The devastation wrought only goes to show how there is an overwhelming need not just for immediate resource-provision but relief efforts that are invested in over a period of many years, efforts that can help rehabilitate and rebuild the lives of the affectees. It also demonstrates the need to recognize how disastrous slow responses to a calamity can be, especially a calamity which shows no end in sight. Here are some of the pictures printed by different news agencies around the world. Captions have been placed as they appeared in print. Pakistani flood affected woman stretch their shawls to receive food provided by Pakistan army soldiers to break their fast on the first day of Muslims fasting month of Ramadan in Muzaffargarh near Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Pakistani flood survivors already short on food and water began the fasting month of Ramadan on Thursday, a normally festive, social time marked this year by misery and fears of an uncertain future. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary) Nature recently published an article which summarizes the far-reaching effects of the flood as well as preventive measures which the government can take (read: should have taken much earlier). Read the article here.
We should be looking more extensively into technologies that can be used now to limit the effects of the flooding in the coming months. Please feel free to share links and stories which could contribute to an understanding of what can be done. Kamil
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8/25/2010 03:33:23 am
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