Natural Disasters During 2007: The year of the flood and the wildfire

(20/11/07)

• Several thousand killed and injured. • Hundreds of thousands of homes inundated or destroyed. Infrastructure damaged and destroyed. • Toxic materials released into the air, water, and soil. • Health care needs sharply increased everywhere. • Millions evacuated and hundreds of thousands displaced. • Livelihoods of hundreds of millions adversely affected. • Tens of billions in insured and uninsured economic losses    Click here to download a PowerPoint Presentation with more details on this Event