Ecuador: Floods - Oct 1997 Updates

According to WMO(*) Annual Statement on the Global Climate Geneva, Thursday, 17 December -- The earth's global temperature in 1998 will be the highest since 1860, according to the World...

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 98/0179 I. SITUATION: 1. Floods, landslides, and heavy seas attributed to El Niño continue to claim lives and cause damage to homes, roads, bridges, and farmland along the coast and...

Bolivia / Peru / Ecuador Flooding continues in Ecuador, and in Peru flooding has spread from the north southwards and has even affected the capital Lima, caused by a major river bursting its banks...

Some 500 Ecuador Red Cross volunteers continue distributing food, clothes and kitchen utensils to people left destitute by the devastating mud slides and floods that destroyed thousands of homes and...

Ref: DHAGVA - 98/0163 Situation 1. In consultation with the national authorities, the United Nations Resident Coordinator reports that the effects of El Niño have worsened over the first two weeks of...

Emergency Project Will Provide Food, Medicine and Clean Water February 13, 1998 - CARE today announced an emergency project to help counteract the devastating effects of El Niño on certain coastal...

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICE 34 Denominations & Communions Working Together to Meet Human Needs DISASTER APPEAL: EL Niño /LATIN AMERICA Disaster Bulletin No. #976715 for $54,000...

Ecuador El Niño Floods - LAEC81 Total Project Budget : US$ 255,644 *ACT Appeal Target : US$ 156,512 Geneva, 02 February 1998 Dear Colleagues, Widespread regions of Ecuador have been severely affected...

Heavy rains attributed to the El Nio phenomenon continue to batter Ecuador. According to the country's National Meteorological Institute, precipitation increased 1,000 per cent above normal over the...

DHAGVA - 98/0140 GENERAL SITUATION 1. According to the UNDP/DHA Resident Representative in Ecuador, floods, sea surge and mudslides, that have been affecting the country since November 1997, as a...

El Niño forecasters' predictions of severe floods in the north of Peru and droughts in the south and into Ecuador are already starting to prove correct. In Ecuador flooding attributed to El Niño has...

ECUADOR EL NINO - FLOODS DHA - GENEVA SITUATION REPORT NO. 4 Situation 1. The intensity of rainfall in Ecuador decreased during the period from 2 to 7 December 1997. However, since 8 December 1997,...

Situation 1. The flooding in Ecuador has worsened during the past ten days. On 24 November 1997, after twenty hours of torrential rain (195 mm of precipitation), the cities of Guayaquil, Chone,...

Ref: DHAGVA - 97/0859 General situation 1. The UNDP/DHA Resident Coordinator and the United Nations Disaster Management Team report that, according to the Ecuadorean Civil Defence of Ecuador, heavy...