Lack of sanitation in days following the event also A week after the typhoon had struck, President leads to a higher level of pollution. Benigno Aquino was under growing pressure to speed The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reports up the distribution of networks or food, water and that hundreds of thousands of hectares of rice have medicine to desperate survivors and to get paralysed been destroyed. local governments functioning. Coconut plantations which are a big source of foreign The Tacloban city government was decimated, with currency were said to be “completely flattened” just 70 workers in the immediate days after the disaster compared to 2,500 normally. Many were Fishing communities have also be severely affected killed, injured, lost family or were simply too with the storm destroying boats and associated traumatised to work. equipment. The United Nations has admitted its response to the typhoon disaster in the Philippines had been too slow, amid reports of hunger and thirst among desperate survivors. What happened? *Leave this until we complete the next section on risk assessment and adjustments & responses to hazards Management of the typhoon hazard in the Philippines. Before the event During the event After the event -
Lack of sanitation in days following the event also leads to a higher level of pollution. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reports that hundreds of thousands of hectares of rice have been destroyed. Coconut plantations which are a big source of foreign currency were said to be “completely flattened” Fishing communities have also be severely affected with the storm destroying boats and associated equipment. A week after the typhoon had struck, President Benigno Aquino was under growing pressure to speed up the distribution of networks or food, water and medicine to desperate survivors and to get paralysed local governments functioning. The Tacloban city government was decimated, with just 70 workers in the immediate days after the disaster compared to 2,500 normally. Many were killed, injured, lost family or were simply too traumatised to work. The United Nations has admitted its response to the typhoon disaster in the Philippines had been too slow, amid reports of hunger and thirst among desperate survivors. What happened? *Leave this until we complete the next section on risk assessment and adjustments & responses to hazards Management of the typhoon hazard in the Philippines. Before the event During the event After the event -
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