El agua es esencial para la vida, pero en lugares como India, Pakistán, China, Tailandia las inundaciones han causado la miseria una vez más. Nesat tifón azotó Filipinas a principios de esta semana en su camino hacia el sur de China. En Pakistán, más de 5 millones de personas han sido afectadas por las recientes inundaciones, según la agencia de ayuda Oxfam. Pakistán todavía está luchando para recuperarse de las devastadoras lluvias monzónicas en el 2010. - Lloyd Young
Un muchacho de pueblo se encuentra a orillas de la hinchazón del río Daya, cerca de Pipli pueblo, a unos 25 kilómetros de la ciudad oriental india de Bhubaneswar 9 de septiembre. La situación de las inundaciones en el estado de Orissa se agravó con la liberación de agua río abajo de la presa más Hirakud, de acuerdo con una agencia de noticias. Un estado de máxima alerta ha sonado en los 11 distritos del estado. (Biswaranjan Rout / Associated Press)
A displaced Pakistani man gestures to Pakistani army officers as they deliver rice and sugar to flood victims, in Badin District, in Pakistan's Sindh province Sept. 24. In Pakistan's Sindh province alone, the floods have killed over 220 people, damaged or destroyed some 665,000 homes and displaced more than 1.8 million people, according to the United Nations. Neighboring Baluchistan province has also been affected. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press
Floods cover a major highway heading north from Bangkok in Sept. 12 in Saraburi, Thailand. Floods continue to ravage areas further south, with 5 people dying after a two-story apartment building sunk when a foundation collapsed due to rain and hillside runoff. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
Surging waves hit against the breakwater in Udono in a port town of Kiho, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, Sept. 21. A powerful typhoon was bearing down on Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast approaching a nuclear power plant crippled in that disaster and prompting calls for the evacuation of more than a million people
Family members, displaced by floods, use a tarp to escape a monsoon downpour while taking shelter at a make-shift camp for flood victims in the Badin district in Pakistan's Sindh province Sept. 14. Floods this year have destroyed or damaged 1.2 million houses and flooded 4.5 million acres since late last month, according to officials and Western aid groups. More than 300,000 people have been made homeless and about 200 have been killed. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)
A food vendor gives change to a customer along a flooded street in the town of Sena, Ayutthaya province Sept 13. Weeks of heavy monsoon rains and a tropical storm in Thailand have caused widespread floods and mudslides, killing at least 84 people since late July. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
Pakistani villagers evacuate household items in a flooded area of Umerkot on Sept. 16. The United Nations said that it was stepping up aid to Pakistan, where monsoon floods have killed 270 people, affected over 5.5 million others and destroyed 1.1 million homes. (AFP/Getty Images
A boy looks from the balcony of his home Sept. 19 after flood waters swamped Guangan, southwest China's Sichuan province, as unprecedented rains over the past week have swamped parts of northern, central and southwest China. Heavy rains and floods across China have left 57 people dead, dozens of others missing and hundreds injured, while more than a million residents have been evacuated from their homes, the government said. (AFP/Getty Images)
Rescue workers transport evacuees in a boat through floodwaters in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, in central Japan on Sept. 20. Hundreds of thousands of people in Japan were warned to leave their homes as an approaching typhoon brought heavy rain and fears of landslides and flash flooding. (Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images)
A paramedic gives treatment to a Pakistani flood affected child at a hospital in Tando Allahyar in flood-hit Sindh province on Sept. 26. Some 2 million Pakistanis have fallen ill from diseases since monsoon rains left the southern region under several feet of water, the country's disaster authority said. More than 350 people have been killed and over eight million people have been affected this year by floods that officials say are worse in parts of Sindh province than last year, when the country saw its worst ever disaster. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images)
A villager wades through flooded water carrying his bicycle near Megha village, 34 miles from the eastern Indian city Bhubaneswar, India on Sept. 11. Around 700,000 people have been affected by floods in 14 districts of Orissa. (Biswaranjan Rout/Associated Press
Policemen and residents run as waves from a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River in Haining, Zhejiang province Aug. 31. As Typhoon Nanmadol approaches eastern China, the tides and waves in Qiantang River recorded its highest level in 10 years, local media reported. (China Daily/Reuters
ndian villagers with their cattle cross flood waters on a boat at Kasimpurchak near Danapur Diara in Patna, India, Sept. 27. Monsoon rains destroyed mud huts and flooded wide swaths of northern and eastern India in recent days, leaving hundreds of thousands marooned by raging waters, officials said. (Aftab Alam Siddiqui/Associated Press)
Flood water covers the roadway Sept. 9 in Bloomsburg, Pa., after remnants from tropical Storm Lee continued to produce heavy rain overnight. (Mel Evans/Associated Press)
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Un muchacho de pueblo se encuentra a orillas de la hinchazón del río Daya, cerca de Pipli pueblo, a unos 25 kilómetros de la ciudad oriental india de Bhubaneswar 9 de septiembre. La situación de las inundaciones en el estado de Orissa se agravó con la liberación de agua río abajo de la presa más Hirakud, de acuerdo con una agencia de noticias. Un estado de máxima alerta ha sonado en los 11 distritos del estado. (Biswaranjan Rout / Associated Press)
A displaced Pakistani man gestures to Pakistani army officers as they deliver rice and sugar to flood victims, in Badin District, in Pakistan's Sindh province Sept. 24. In Pakistan's Sindh province alone, the floods have killed over 220 people, damaged or destroyed some 665,000 homes and displaced more than 1.8 million people, according to the United Nations. Neighboring Baluchistan province has also been affected. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press
Floods cover a major highway heading north from Bangkok in Sept. 12 in Saraburi, Thailand. Floods continue to ravage areas further south, with 5 people dying after a two-story apartment building sunk when a foundation collapsed due to rain and hillside runoff. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
Surging waves hit against the breakwater in Udono in a port town of Kiho, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, Sept. 21. A powerful typhoon was bearing down on Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast approaching a nuclear power plant crippled in that disaster and prompting calls for the evacuation of more than a million people
Family members, displaced by floods, use a tarp to escape a monsoon downpour while taking shelter at a make-shift camp for flood victims in the Badin district in Pakistan's Sindh province Sept. 14. Floods this year have destroyed or damaged 1.2 million houses and flooded 4.5 million acres since late last month, according to officials and Western aid groups. More than 300,000 people have been made homeless and about 200 have been killed. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)
A food vendor gives change to a customer along a flooded street in the town of Sena, Ayutthaya province Sept 13. Weeks of heavy monsoon rains and a tropical storm in Thailand have caused widespread floods and mudslides, killing at least 84 people since late July. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
Pakistani villagers evacuate household items in a flooded area of Umerkot on Sept. 16. The United Nations said that it was stepping up aid to Pakistan, where monsoon floods have killed 270 people, affected over 5.5 million others and destroyed 1.1 million homes. (AFP/Getty Images
A boy looks from the balcony of his home Sept. 19 after flood waters swamped Guangan, southwest China's Sichuan province, as unprecedented rains over the past week have swamped parts of northern, central and southwest China. Heavy rains and floods across China have left 57 people dead, dozens of others missing and hundreds injured, while more than a million residents have been evacuated from their homes, the government said. (AFP/Getty Images)
Rescue workers transport evacuees in a boat through floodwaters in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, in central Japan on Sept. 20. Hundreds of thousands of people in Japan were warned to leave their homes as an approaching typhoon brought heavy rain and fears of landslides and flash flooding. (Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images)
A paramedic gives treatment to a Pakistani flood affected child at a hospital in Tando Allahyar in flood-hit Sindh province on Sept. 26. Some 2 million Pakistanis have fallen ill from diseases since monsoon rains left the southern region under several feet of water, the country's disaster authority said. More than 350 people have been killed and over eight million people have been affected this year by floods that officials say are worse in parts of Sindh province than last year, when the country saw its worst ever disaster. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images)
A villager wades through flooded water carrying his bicycle near Megha village, 34 miles from the eastern Indian city Bhubaneswar, India on Sept. 11. Around 700,000 people have been affected by floods in 14 districts of Orissa. (Biswaranjan Rout/Associated Press
Policemen and residents run as waves from a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River in Haining, Zhejiang province Aug. 31. As Typhoon Nanmadol approaches eastern China, the tides and waves in Qiantang River recorded its highest level in 10 years, local media reported. (China Daily/Reuters
ndian villagers with their cattle cross flood waters on a boat at Kasimpurchak near Danapur Diara in Patna, India, Sept. 27. Monsoon rains destroyed mud huts and flooded wide swaths of northern and eastern India in recent days, leaving hundreds of thousands marooned by raging waters, officials said. (Aftab Alam Siddiqui/Associated Press)
Flood water covers the roadway Sept. 9 in Bloomsburg, Pa., after remnants from tropical Storm Lee continued to produce heavy rain overnight. (Mel Evans/Associated Press)
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