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South Asia Crisis: Millions Flee 'Worst Ever' Floods

DK Matai - August 03, 2007

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After USA, UK, China and Pakistan, it is India, Nepal and Bangladesh's turn: 100s have died & millions have been left homeless by floods across South Asia. 35 million are affected. Hope for humanity? YES!

More than 1,000 people have been killed or injured by 'worst ever' monsoon floods in South Asia in the last two weeks, while more than 20 million remain homeless or marooned in their villages, many without access to basic health care. The devastation comes on the heels of severe flooding in southern Pakistan, caused when Cyclone Yemyin struck the country's provinces of Balochistan and Sindh in late June. In June and July, many parts of the UK were flooded and so were parts of the US and China.

Aid agencies say the "dead and injured" figure is expected to rise sharply. The threat of water-borne diseases is rising, with many villages cut off for days. So far about 20 million people are known to have fled their homes or are trapped in villages at risk from building collapse, landslides, snakebites, drowning and disease.

More than 35 million people are affected in the crowded and largely impoverished region. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said the floods are causing havoc and chaos and could be the worst in living memory in some areas. "The sheer size and scale of flooding and massive numbers of people affected poses an unprecedented challenge to the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian assistance," according to UNICEF.

Water Water Everywhere

Across the subcontinent more than half of Bangladesh is flooded, and nearly 7 million of the 20 million affected there have been marooned or forced from their homes. India appears to have been hit even harder by the latest inundations with floodwaters striking the densely-populated and poor states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh as well as the more remote Assam. In Nepal, nearly a 100 people have been killed by flooding and landslides, and nearly 10,000 families have been displaced with more than a quarter million people in 32 districts affected in the last two weeks. More than 300,000 hectares (740,000 acres) of crops have been affected.

In India's north-eastern state of Assam nearly 3 million are displaced or marooned -- more than 10 percent of the oil-and-tea-producing state's population. Officials there warned of outbreaks of diarrhoea and malaria. Military helicopters and boats have tried to bring food, drinking water and medicines to them.

In the East of India -- in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state -- hundreds of thousands have been displaced or stranded.

Rains have also affected major cities of Mumbai and the Indian capital of New Delhi. In western India, flights and trains have been delayed by monsoon rains in the financial hub of Mumbai, where thousands waded knee-deep in water.

Near India's eastern city of Kolkata, a court-appointed panel said that state-run oil firms whose compounds were flooded had pumped out industrial waste and oil along with water, causing waterlogging on roads and in several neighbourhoods.

If we all come together, step by step, and see no difference between them and us, because we are all one, then there is hope for humanity yet. YES!

[ENDS]

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families and we would like to hear from you about what you think.

With love and warm wishes to you and family


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Posted by DK Matai at August 3, 2007 10:20 AM

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I am so very sorry to hear about these disasters. I have long stopped watching TV and movies again, so I had not a clue the flooding was so bad except for all of DK's posts - my only news now.

I will join in the prayers.

Love, Char

I just want everyone to know how relieved I am that all these floods have NOTHING to do with Global Warming, because global warming doesn't exist.

Nope, no global warming around here...biggest hoax that was ever invented, that there global warming, yep, sure enough...

...(walks away whistling "Dixie")....

I just want everyone to know I am relieved these floods have nothing to do with scalar weather technology in the hands of consortiums and organized crime while we get happy about raising money for something kindly like global warming. Walks away whistling speak softly love.

Apologies for the sarcasm. Love, prayers and donations for more harmed brothers and sisters of the world.

Likewise, apologies for the sarcasm.

I'm just frustrated that we can't seem to find the way to better care for each other on a global level. These disasters are avoidable, and our handling of them could be much more efficient...

Empathy and prayers for those affected...

I just read today how the Courts in the US have ruled that the insurance companies of people who lost homes in New Orleans have no obligation to them.

It really is YOYO (Your On Your Own) in our brave new world.

I just helped train a woman at my job who is a Katrina refugee. She's juggling two jobs and just struggling to get life started up again. Lost her house, no insurance for flooding, same old story...It's like she's a first generation immigrant in the very country she was born and grew up in.

There has to be a better way than this, people...

Sarcasm won't help, friends. Sarcasm is about how stupid "they" are and how wise "I" am and the "I told you so" syndrome. We have no time for sarcasm, fingerpointing and finding blame. Turn your eyes to yourself and remove EVERYTHING that is in the way of loving everyone. Including yourselves.

HEALERS EVERYWHERE
We have a gathering for Bangladesh, India, Nepal in the Heal the Planet group on www.thealliancenetwork.org . No matter what your healing technique or school, join us.

Yes Yogi-one and Tapestry there is a better way. Join us in our internet intersession at the Alliance network. I know there is much love and compassion stored in you and there is a place to release that energy in a new way.

peace come from release

derek

Aloha derek

Mahalo for posting this for I too don't read newspapers or have cable TV. It is only the ego that believes death (suffering) steals life. We are the essence of I am. Witnessing heals. Miracles are natural and happening, love patty

Aloha derek

Mahalo for posting this for I too don't read newspapers or have cable TV. It is only the ego that believes death (suffering) steals life. We are the essence of I am. Witnessing heals. Miracles are natural and happening, love patty

Aurora: I would have enjoyed questions. Your post was psychologically off-base.

Derek: I'll see. Thank you.

Sorry Tapestry. No intention to offend. Just expressing what I see.

The pity of this is it was to a great degree foreseen.

We are small, and so often helpless in the face of reality. We need to anticipate and plan, and that includes fitting our species into the reservoir of the planet's resources as gently and fairly as possible.

Oh, no problem, Aurora. It is not offensive when it is off-base. It is just off-base. Questions prevent such errors. A healer who sees it that way and calls it is the first one to solidify. Then you need a healer to heal what the healer did.

I'm off the thread. Personalization is too distracting to the severity and honor of the topic.

Tapestry,

I had to look up "off base", it means "peripheral-on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area". I guess I have touched a boundary that is important to you, I am sorry.

Then I looked up "personalization". It means "To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner". May I ask - did you take my comment personally?

I mean "take it personal" :)

...or is it "personally"??? Help :):D:) Gosh, I'm trying to stay serious... I'm so very sorry!

This new flood proof, extreme weather housing technology [click my name below] will help the world. You would think my phone would be ringing off the hook.

"how fast can we get this into production on a global scale?"

I wrote this July 20th "I need about 5 million to get that going we are going to use that for additional R & D for the global operation for very fast build extreme weather proof housing replacement."

I have not received any phone calls from any interested parties or governments yet.

I have one local project I am now working on.

I keep meeting so much ego resistance. It will be the death of us (almost) all you know.

Warnings, solutions, recommendations all posted here on intent blog and available, no action though. To bad the movers and shakers of the world didn't read it.

So how are we doing with the switch to Amaranth as the global food staple ? The storage of ONE THIRD?

What about the soil remineralization? Remember it traps CO2? and produces healthy bumper crops with nutritionally complete produce. The worlds military should be moving mountains literally.

I am finding these solutions disrupt the current system of things, so there are people (ego) and industries that resist them.

This is due to a lack of wisdom because all though it might be okay for now, there will be hell to pay later.

Does everyone remember the story of Noah and how very few bothered to listen because of the ego?

So they all drowned.

Are we going to make the same mistake twice?

Maybe that is how it is supposed to be.

Good morning Richard :)

I'd say we need to do both the inner and the outer work relentlessly and without expectations. If we keep checking every other second if the ego is letting go yet...lol... guess who's doing the checking! What a grand chance to feel hopeless/bitter/resentful/superior and stop doing whatever you were doing. Don't you just love the ego? I find it so interesting and enjoyable to observe how it honestly protects the story of its importance/existence... whatever defines a difference between me and anything at all is such a clever trick of perception.

Good next morning Aurora,(I) think that it is mostly a building awareness that transforms (i). With wisdom, One finds one's self constantly reprocessing or refining their perceptual choices, in an attempt to improve one's resulting experiences.

In the grand system of things our character is just a temp file that is eventually deleted.

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