We cannot live outdoors in the rain, or build our homes. The quake caused the 760-megawatt hydropower generating unit at Zipingpu, 9 kilometres upstream of Dujiangyan, to collapse, the provincial government said. Farmers also have to be helped with refrigeration systems to transport their goods to markets. "We spent nearly half an hour there [before] I requested that all passengers disembark while I find a way to pass," he said. c) CSB, highly nutritious blended food, introduced into WFP emergency and institutional feeding programmes in Kabul and districts of Waras and Panjao. These specimens must be prevented from drying out during transport, as evaporation of hydrogen cyanide would reduce the detectable levels of cyanide compounds during the assay. The lack of income of both nomadic and agriculturalist families has affected their ability to pay for medicines, although the Pakistani Army is providing 16 Health Posts (eight static and eight mobile) along the Padag Road. 'Now we are living in a temporary dwelling without heating. Both Yangon and Pathein ports have been reopened, allowing access to inland waterways. All the regions have been affected, though at varying degrees due to the ecological systems. There were five houses and ten irrigation works were damaged, nearly 4,600 ha of subsidiary crop destroyed and nearly 269 ha of aquaculture submerged. Exploring the feasibility of a private disaster insurance scheme required extensive research and consultation with a host of individuals and institutions-insurers and reinsurers, government agencies, financial intermediaries, local NGOs, relief groups, community networks, and, not least, the farmers themselves-with many important findings emerging along the way. ANGOLA: WFP convoy ambushed. The drought has lasted almost three years with only sporadic rain falling - nowhere near the amount needed to cultivate crops and rear livestock. It says, ''The trends are considerably smaller than the negative trends in the north, and could be due to a combination of increased reservoir impoundment, mis-modelled naturally varying storage and (along the southeast coast) tectonic signals related to the Dec 26, 2004 Sumatran earthquake.''. NRC has provided shelter material and heating elements to 150 families. Early implementation of the Bali action plan was also necessary, and establishment of a climate change adaptation fund would be of 'immense' help to vulnerable States. These excessive rains particularly exacerbated conditions in the southern region, where chronic poverty prevails and farmers, constrained by small farm sizes, often cannot produce enough for home consumption and for the market. Triyoso said monitoring systems are adequate, with sensor equipment installed at volcanoes nationwide, but authorities need to actually use this monitoring data in their risk and hazard assessment programmes, including eruption scenarios, and in formulating reconstruction plans. The death of thousands of caspian seals on the Kazakh, Turkmen and Azeri shores of the Caspian Sea since April of this year was primarily caused by an outbreak of canine distemper virus (CDV), according to an international team of scientists who reported their findings last week. We are extremely worried that many children in the affected areas are now suffering from severe acute malnourishment, the most serious level of hunger," said Jasmine Whitbread, Chief Executive of Save the Children UK.