1. For the past few months, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) have been exposed to a drought caused by the El Nino phenomenon. The FSM, with a population of about 103,000, consist of four states (Yap - with a population of 10,000, Chuuk - 56,000, Pohnpei - 30,000 and Kosrae - 7,000). They are part of the Caroline islands group, the remaining portion of which forms the Republic of Palau. There are 607 islands (of which only about 65 are permanently inhabited) with a total land area of 701 sq km, scattered across an area of the Pacific about two