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Title: Tuvalu

Banking services are provided by the National Bank of Tuvalu. Public sector workers make up about 65% of those formally employed. Remittances from Tuvaluans living in Australia and New Zealand, and remittances from Tuvaluan sailors employed on overseas ships are important sources of income for Tuvaluans. Approximately 15% of adult males work as seamen on foreign-flagged merchant ships. Agriculture in Tuvalu is focused on coconut trees and growing pulaka in large pits of composted soil below the water table. Tuvaluans are otherwise involved in traditional subsistence agriculture and fishing.

Question: What business provides banking services on Tuvalu?
Answer: National Bank of Tuvalu

Question: Where are many of those who provide income to residents earning?
Answer: overseas

Question: How do 15% of male Tuvaluans earn their income?
Answer: seamen

Question: What percentage of the Tuvalu workforce is in the public sector?
Answer: 65%

Question: What are the traditional forms of living employed by Tuvaluans?
Answer: agriculture and fishing.
Title: Tuvalu

Tuvaluans are well known for their seafaring skills, with the Tuvalu Maritime Training Institute on Amatuku motu (island), Funafuti, providing training to approximately 120 marine cadets each year so that they have the skills necessary for employment as seafarers on merchant shipping. The Tuvalu Overseas Seamen's Union (TOSU) is the only registered trade union in Tuvalu. It represents workers on foreign ships. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimates that 800 Tuvaluan men are trained, certified and active as seafarers. The ADB estimates that, at any one time, about 15% of the adult male population works abroad as seafarers. Job opportunities also exist as observers on tuna boats where the role is to monitor compliance with the boat's tuna fishing licence.

Question: What school provides maritime education on Tuvalu?
Answer: Tuvalu Maritime Training Institute

Question: What is the yearly number of cadets at the Maritime Training Institute?
Answer: 120

Question: What is the only trade union on Tuvalu?
Answer: Tuvalu Overseas Seamen's Union

Question: On what does the Seaman'd Union represent workers?
Answer: on foreign ships

Question: How many Tuvaluan men are active seafarers?
Answer: 800
Title: Tuvalu

Government revenues largely come from sales of fishing licenses, income from the Tuvalu Trust Fund, and from the lease of its highly fortuitous .tv Internet Top Level Domain (TLD). In 1998, Tuvalu began deriving revenue from the use of its area code for premium-rate telephone numbers and from the commercialisation of its ".tv" Internet domain name, which is now managed by Verisign until 2021. The ".tv" domain name generates around $2.2 million each year from royalties, which is about ten per cent of the government's total revenue. Domain name income paid most of the cost of paving the streets of Funafuti and installing street lighting in mid-2002. Tuvalu also generates income from stamps by the Tuvalu Philatelic Bureau and income from the Tuvalu Ship Registry.

Question: How much money does Tuvalu's tv domain name earn each year?
Answer: $2.2 million

Question: What si Tuvalu's tv domain?
Answer: Top Level Domain

Question: What company is managing Tuvalu's tv domain?
Answer: Verisign

Question: How much of the total government revenue comes from the domain name?
Answer: ten per cent

Question: What  income source does Tuvalu earn from shipping?
Answer: Tuvalu Ship Registry
Title: Tuvalu

The United Nations designates Tuvalu as a least developed country (LDC) because of its limited potential for economic development, absence of exploitable resources and its small size and vulnerability to external economic and environmental shocks. Tuvalu participates in the Enhanced Integrated Framework for Trade-Related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries (EIF), which was established in October 1997 under the auspices of the World Trade Organisation. In 2013 Tuvalu deferred its graduation from least developed country (LDC) status to a developing country to 2015. Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga said that this deferral was necessary to maintain access by Tuvalu to the funds provided by the United Nations's National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA), as "Once Tuvalu graduates to a developed country, it will not be considered for funding assistance for climate change adaptation programmes like NAPA, which only goes to LDCs". Tuvalu had met targets so that Tuvalu was to graduate from LDC status. Prime minister, Enele Sopoaga wants the United Nations to reconsider its criteria for graduation from LDC status as not enough weight is given to the environmental plight of small island states like Tuvalu in the application of the Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI).

Question: What is the UN developmental designation for Tuvalu?
Answer: least developed

Question: What did Tuvalu do in 2013 in regards to it least developed country status?
Answer: deferred its graduation

Question: What organization sponsors an assistance program for least developed countries?
Answer: World Trade Organisation

Question: What would Tuvalu have lost as a developed country?
Answer: funding assistance

Question: What type of problem does the current developed country rating not take into enough consideration?
Answer: environmental
Title: Tuvalu

The Tuvalu Media Department of the Government of Tuvalu operates Radio Tuvalu which broadcasts from Funafuti. In 2011 the Japanese government provided financial support to construct a new AM broadcast studio. The installation of upgraded transmission equipment allows Radio Tuvalu to be heard on all nine islands of Tuvalu. The new AM radio transmitter on Funafuti replaced the FM radio service to the outer islands and freed up satellite bandwidth for mobile services. Fenui – news from Tuvalu is a free digital publication of the Tuvalu Media Department that is emailed to subscribers and operates a Facebook page, which publishes news about government activities and news about Tuvaluan events, such as a special edition covering the results of the 2015 general election.

Question: What is the radio station on Tuvalu?
Answer: Radio Tuvalu

Question: From where does Radio Tuvalu broadcast?
Answer: Funafuti

Question: Who gave financial support to Tuvalu to upgrade transmission equipment?
Answer: Japanese government

Question: What did the new radio equipment replace with AM service? 
Answer: FM radio

Question: What service got more bandwidth from the transmission upgrade?
Answer: mobile
Title: Tuvalu

Funafuti is the only port but there is a deep-water berth in the harbour at Nukufetau. The merchant marine fleet consists of two passenger/cargo ships Nivaga III and Manu Folau. These ships carry cargo and passengers between the main atolls and travel between Suva, Fiji and Funafuti 3 to 4 times a year. The Nivaga III and Manu Folau provide round trip visits to the outer islands every three or four weeks. The Manu Folau is a 50-metre vessel that was a gift from Japan to the people of Tuvalu. In 2015 the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) assisted the government of Tuvalu to acquire MV Talamoana, a 30-metre vessel that will be used to implement Tuvalu's National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) to transport government officials and project personnel to the outer islands. In 2015 the Nivaga III was donated by the government of Japan; it replaced the Nivaga II, which had serviced Tuvalu from 1989.

Question: Where is Tuvalu's only port?
Answer: Funafuti

Question: Where is there a deep water berth available on Tuvalu?
Answer: Nukufetau

Question: Of how many ships does the merchant marine fleet consist?
Answer: two

Question: What ship did Japan donate to Tuvalu in 2015?
Answer: Nivaga III

Question: What do Tuvalu's merchant fleet carry?
Answer: cargo and passengers
Title: Tuvalu

Tuvalu consists of three reef islands and six true atolls. Its small, scattered group of atolls have poor soil and a total land area of only about 26 square kilometres (10 square miles) making it the fourth smallest country in the world. The islets that form the atolls are very low lying. Nanumanga, Niutao, Niulakita are reef islands and the six true atolls are Funafuti, Nanumea, Nui, Nukufetau, Nukulaelae and Vaitupu. Tuvalu's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers an oceanic area of approximately 900,000 km2.

Question: How many reef islands does the Tuvalu group have?
Answer: three

Question: What are the number of true atolls are in the Tuvalu islands?
Answer: six

Question: What is the total land area of Tuvalu?
Answer: 26 square kilometres

Question: How does Tuvalu rank in country size as compared to other nations?
Answer: fourth smallest

Question: What is the coverage of Tuvalu's economic zone?
Answer: 900,000 km2
Title: Tuvalu

Funafuti is the largest atoll of the nine low reef islands and atolls that form the Tuvalu volcanic island chain. It comprises numerous islets around a central lagoon that is approximately 25.1 kilometres (15.6 miles) (N–S) by 18.4 kilometres (11.4 miles) (W-E), centred on 179°7'E and 8°30'S. On the atolls, an annular reef rim surrounds the lagoon with several natural reef channels. Surveys were carried out in May 2010 of the reef habitats of Nanumea, Nukulaelae and Funafuti and a total of 317 fish species were recorded during this Tuvalu Marine Life study. The surveys identified 66 species that had not previously been recorded in Tuvalu, which brings the total number of identified species to 607.

Question: Which of Tuvalu's atolls is largest?
Answer: Funafuti

Question: What type of island grouping is Tuvalu?
Answer: volcanic island chain

Question: What are the map coordinates fro Tuvalu?
Answer: 179°7'E and 8°30'S

Question: How species of creatures inhabit the Tuvalu lagoon?
Answer: 607

Question: How many new species were were found in the Tuvalu area that had not been previously recorded?
Answer: 66
Title: Tuvalu

Tuvalu experiences the effects of El Niño and La Niña caused by changes in ocean temperatures in the equatorial and central Pacific. El Niño effects increase the chances of tropical storms and cyclones, while La Niña effects increase the chances of drought. Typically the islands of Tuvalu receive between 200 to 400 mm (8 to 16 in) of rainfall per month. However, in 2011 a weak La Niña effect caused a drought by cooling the surface of the sea around Tuvalu. A state of emergency was declared on 28 September 2011; with rationing of fresh-water on the islands of Funafuti and Nukulaelae. Households on Funafuti and Nukulaelae were restricted to two buckets of fresh water per day (40 litres).

Question: What specific ocean temperature conditions effect Tuvalu?
Answer: El Niño and La Niña

Question: Which effect causes increases in sea storms like cyclones?
Answer: El Niño

Question: What temperature effect causes drought?
Answer: La Niña

Question: What did a drought in 2011 cause on Funafuti?
Answer: rationing of fresh-water

Question: What is the usual amount of rainfall per month on Tuvalu?
Answer: 200 to 400 mm
Title: Tuvalu

The governments of Australia and New Zealand responded to the 2011 fresh-water crisis by supplying temporary desalination plants, and assisted in the repair of the existing desalination unit that was donated by Japan in 2006. In response to the 2011 drought, Japan funded the purchase of a 100 m3/d desalination plant and two portable 10 m3/d plants as part of its Pacific Environment Community (PEC) program. Aid programs from the European Union and Australia also provided water tanks as part of the longer term solution for the storage of available fresh water.

Question: What type of device did Australia and New Zealand offer to Tuvalu during the 2011 drought?
Answer: desalination plants

Question: As aprt of what program did Japan fund a new desalination plant at Tuvalu?
Answer: Pacific Environment Community

Question: What did aid from the European Union provide during the drought on Tuvalu?
Answer: water tanks

Question: What did Tuvalu's new water tanks make possible to store?
Answer: fresh water

Question: In what year had Japan previously donated a desalination plant to Tuvalu?
Answer: 2006
Title: Tuvalu

The eastern shoreline of Funafuti Lagoon was modified during World War II when the airfield (what is now Funafuti International Airport) was constructed. The coral base of the atoll was used as fill to create the runway. The resulting borrow pits impacted the fresh-water aquifer. In the low areas of Funafuti the sea water can be seen bubbling up through the porous coral rock to form pools with each high tide. Since 1994 a project has been in development to assess the environmental impact of transporting sand from the lagoon to fill all the borrow pits and low-lying areas on Fongafale. In 2014 the Tuvalu Borrow Pits Remediation (BPR) project was approved in order to fill 10 borrow pits, leaving Tafua Pond, which is a natural pond. The New Zealand Government funded the BPR project. The project was carried out in 2015 with 365,000 sqm of sand being dredged from the lagoon to fill the holes and improve living conditions on the island. This project increase the usable land space on Fongafale by eight per cent.

Question: What is the modern name for the air field built during WWII?
Answer: Funafuti International Airport

Question: What was damaged by building of the war time air field?
Answer: Funafuti Lagoon

Question: What has the pits from the Tuvalu air runways construction  impacted?
Answer: fresh-water aquifer

Question: What government funded the restoration of the borrow pits on Tuvalu?
Answer: New Zealand Government

Question: How much increase in land space did the filling of the borrow pits cause?
Answer: eight per cent
Title: Tuvalu

The reefs at Funafuti have suffered damage, with 80 per cent of the coral becoming bleached as a consequence of the increase in ocean temperatures and ocean acidification. The coral bleaching, which includes staghorn corals, is attributed to the increase in water temperature that occurred during the El Niños that occurred from 1998–2000 and from 2000–2001. A reef restoration project has investigated reef restoration techniques; and researchers from Japan have investigated rebuilding the coral reefs through the introduction of foraminifera. The project of the Japan International Cooperation Agency is designed to increase the resilience of the Tuvalu coast against sea level rise through ecosystem rehabilitation and regeneration and through support for sand production.

Question: What percentage of the Tuvalu coral has become bleached?
Answer: 80 per cent

Question: What increase caused by the El Ninos is responsible for the coral bleaching?
Answer: water temperature

Question: What has been investigated as a means of rebuilding the reefs at Tuvalu?
Answer: foraminifera

Question: What is hoped will strengthen the Tuvalu coast against sea level rise?
Answer: ecosystem rehabilitation

Question: What type of project has been started to rebuild the reefs at Tuvalu?
Answer: reef restoration
Title: Tuvalu

The rising population has resulted in an increased demand on fish stocks, which are under stress; although the creation of the Funafuti Conservation Area has provided a fishing exclusion area to help sustain the fish population across the Funafuti lagoon. Population pressure on the resources of Funafuti and inadequate sanitation systems have resulted in pollution. The Waste Operations and Services Act of 2009 provides the legal framework for waste management and pollution control projects funded by the European Union directed at organic waste composting in eco-sanitation systems. The Environment Protection (Litter and Waste Control) Regulation 2013 is intended to improve the management of the importation of non-biodegradable materials. In Tuvalu plastic waste is a problem as much imported food and other commodities are supplied in plastic containers or packaging.

Question: What has been formed to protect the fish stocks in Tuvalu Lagoon?
Answer: Funafuti Conservation Area

Question: What factor has caused an increased demand for fish?
Answer: rising population

Question: What has growth in population and poor sanitation caused?
Answer: pollution

Question: What organization has funded a waste management control plan on Tuvalu?
Answer: European Union

Question: What do imports produce on Tuvalu?
Answer: plastic waste
Title: Tuvalu

Reverse osmosis (R/O) desalination units supplement rainwater harvesting on Funafuti. The 65 m3 desalination plant operates at a real production level of around 40 m3 per day. R/O water is only intended to be produced when storage falls below 30%, however demand to replenish household storage supplies with tanker-delivered water means that the R/O desalination units are continually operating. Water is delivered at a cost of A$3.50 per m3. Cost of production and delivery has been estimated at A$6 per m3, with the difference subsidised by the government.

Question: What type of desalination is used on Funafuti?
Answer: Reverse osmosis

Question: How much water does the Funafuti plant produce?
Answer: 40 m3 per day

Question: At what storage  point is R/O water production meant to be used?
Answer: below 30%

Question: What organization subsidizes the cost of water desalination?
Answer: government

Question: What is the cost of R/O produced water?
Answer: A$3.50 per m3
Title: Tuvalu

In July 2012 a United Nations Special Rapporteur called on the Tuvalu Government to develop a national water strategy to improve access to safe drinking water and sanitation. In 2012, Tuvalu developed a National Water Resources Policy under the Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) Project and the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) Project, which are sponsored by the Global Environment Fund/SOPAC. Government water planning has established a target of between 50 and 100L of water per person per day accounting for drinking water, cleaning, community and cultural activities.

Question: When did the UN ask Tuvalu to come up with a plan to improve drinking water?
Answer: July 2012

Question: What did Tuvalu develop as a safe water strategy?
Answer: National Water Resources Policy

Question: What is the per person per day targeted use of water for Tuvalu?
Answer: 50 and 100L

Question: What organization called for Tuvalu to  improve its water and sanitation systems?
Answer: United Nations

Question: What group ultimately sponsored the Tuvalu water resources policy?
Answer: Global Environment Fund
Title: Tuvalu

Because of the low elevation, the islands that make up this nation are vulnerable to the effects of tropical cyclones and by the threat of current and future sea level rise. The highest elevation is 4.6 metres (15 ft) above sea level on Niulakita, which gives Tuvalu the second-lowest maximum elevation of any country (after the Maldives). The highest elevations are typically in narrow storm dunes on the ocean side of the islands which are prone to overtopping in tropical cyclones, as occurred with Cyclone Bebe, which was a very early-season storm that passed through the Tuvaluan atolls in October 1972. Cyclone Bebe submerged Funafuti, eliminating 90% of structures on the island. Sources of drinking water were contaminated as a result of the system's storm surge and the flooding of the sources of fresh water.

Question: What geological situation makes Tuvalu prone to storm damage?
Answer: low elevation

Question: To what climate change condition does Tuvalu's low elevation make it susceptible?
Answer: sea level rise

Question: What is the highest elevation on Tuvalu?
Answer: 4.6 metres

Question: Where on Tuvalu is the highest elevation?
Answer: Niulakita

Question: Where does Tuvalu rank among other countries as to lowest elevation?
Answer: second-lowest
Title: Tuvalu

Cyclone Bebe in 1972 caused severe damage to Funafuti. Funafuti's Tepuka Vili Vili islet was devastated by Cyclone Meli in 1979, with all its vegetation and most of its sand swept away during the cyclone. Along with a tropical depression that affected the islands a few days later, Severe Tropical Cyclone Ofa had a major impact on Tuvalu with most islands reporting damage to vegetation and crops. Cyclone Gavin was first identified during 2 March 1997, and was the first of three tropical cyclones to affect Tuvalu during the 1996–97 cyclone season with Cyclones Hina and Keli following later in the season.

Question: What cyclone badly damaged Funafuti?
Answer: Cyclone Bebe

Question: How many cyclones effected Tuvalu during the 1996-97  cyclone season? 
Answer: three

Question: What cyclone caused major damage to vegetation on all islands on Tuvalu?
Answer: Cyclone Ofa

Question: What was the first cyclone to strike Tuvalu during the 1996-97 season?
Answer: Cyclone Gavin

Question: What islet was damaged by Cyclone Meli in 1979?
Answer: Funafuti's Tepuka Vili Vili
Title: Tuvalu

In March 2015, the winds and storm surge created by Cyclone Pam resulted in waves of 3 metres (9.8 ft) to 5 metres (16 ft) breaking over the reef of the outer islands caused damage to houses, crops and infrastructure. On Nui the sources of fresh water were destroyed or contaminated. The flooding in Nui and Nukufetau caused many families to shelter in evacuation centres or with other families. Nui suffered the most damage of the three central islands (Nui, Nukufetau and Vaitupu); with both Nui and Nukufetau suffering the loss of 90% of the crops. Of the three northern islands (Nanumanga, Niutao, Nanumea), Nanumanga suffered the most damage, with 60-100 houses flooded, with the waves also causing damage to the health facility. Vasafua islet, part of the Funafuti Conservation Area, was severely damaged by Cyclone Pam. The coconut palms were washed away, leaving the islet as a sand bar.

Question: What were the wave heights during Cyclone Pam on Tuvalu?
Answer: 3 metres (9.8 ft) to 5 metres (16 ft)

Question: In what year did Cyclone Pam strike Tuvalu?
Answer: March 2015

Question: During Cyclone Pam which island had the most damage?
Answer: Nui

Question: What percentage of Tuvalu crops were destroyed during  Cyclone Pam?
Answer: 90%

Question: The loss of what caused the Vasafua islet to become  a sand bar due to Cyclone Pam?
Answer: coconut palms
Title: Tuvalu

The Tuvalu Government carried out assessments of the damage caused by Cyclone Pam to the islands and has provided medical aid, food as well as assistance for the cleaning-up of storm debris. Government and Non-Government Organisations provided assistance technical, funding and material support to Tuvalu to assist with recovery, including WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, OCHA, World Bank, DFAT, New Zealand Red Cross & IFRC, Fiji National University and governments of New Zealand, Netherlands, UAE, Taiwan and the United States.

Question: What did the Tuvalu government assess after Cyclone Pam?
Answer: damage

Question: What event on Tuvalu made assistance to the population necessary?
Answer: Cyclone Pam

Question: What assistance did many international groups give to Tuvalu?
Answer: recovery

Question: For what action was government assistance necessary after the Tuvalu cyclone??
Answer: cleaning-up
Title: Tuvalu

Whether there are measurable changes in the sea level relative to the islands of Tuvalu is a contentious issue. There were problems associated with the pre-1993 sea level records from Funafuti which resulted in improvements in the recording technology to provide more reliable data for analysis. The degree of uncertainty as to estimates of sea level change relative to the islands of Tuvalu was reflected in the conclusions made in 2002 from the available data. The 2011 report of the Pacific Climate Change Science Program published by the Australian Government, concludes: "The sea-level rise near Tuvalu measured by satellite altimeters since 1993 is about 5 mm (0.2 in) per year."

Question: What subject is arguable concerning Tuvalu?
Answer: sea level

Question: What was the amount of sea level change on Tuvalu estimated by the 2011 report?
Answer: 5 mm

Question: What device was used to produce the measurements of sea level change on Tuvalu?
Answer: satellite

Question: Prior to what year were the reports used to assess sea level rise?
Answer: pre-1993

Question: What is assumed about the sea level reports and records of Tuvalu?
Answer: degree of uncertainty