While it can currently produce enough food grains for its people, Bangladesh still needs to protect itself against drought, flooding or other natural disasters.
Platypus LLC build autonomous robotic airboats that can be deployed for a wide range of usages including environmental data and monitoring hard-to-reach spots after natural disasters like flooding.
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Still, the upbeat domestic sales figures for the first month of the new business year are likely to fan optimism that Japanese car makers will continue to regain sales momentum after the disruptions caused by last year's Asian natural disasters, which also included flooding in Thailand.
"This strategy will not affect the availability of aid that any disaster survivors are receiving for recent disasters, such as tornadoes or flooding, or our response operations for Hurricane Irene or any event in the coming weeks or months, " Racusen said.
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Natural disasters such as earthquake, tsunami, flooding and drought command our attention regularly (and remind us that sometimes human actions have made their effects worse).
Sharp water-course rising and flooding are among the main threats of water-produced disasters in the Region of Latin America and the Caribbean.
With more energy than expertise, the Yaps suffered many disasters--the most devastating in 1989 when flooding flushed many thousands of fish out of their ponds and sent them squiggling toward the Straits of Johor.
Pakistan is prone to natural disasters, even beyond the regular annual problems such as widespread flooding that accompanies any annual monsoon.
Remember that our Army forces and our Marine Corps forces spend a great deal of time both being first responders to disasters -- currently assessment teams are in Thailand continuing to assess the flooding that the Thailand people have experienced.
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