And around the world, satellites and warning systems are saving lives in flood prone areas such as Bangladesh.

The International Flood Network (IFNet), which is chaired by WMO and involves ISDR and ESCAP, is promoting the Global Flood Alert System, a programme for mitigating flood damage.

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Examples of existing adaptation technologies include air conditioning, flood defence systems, irrigation, monitoring, forecasting and early warning systems for natural hazards.

(a) Development of its early warning system

(a) Establishment of an early warning system

E. A global monitoring and warning satellite system

40. HEWS is a humanitarian early warning system.

GIEWS Global Information and Early Warning System (FAO)

GIEWS Global Information and Early Warning System (FAO)

In the eleventh preambular paragraph, the phrase a multinodal early warning system network should be deleted and replaced with an early warning system .

This project can create precipitation maps worldwide every three hours and thereby assist flood forecasting and warning systems in developing countries without telemetric networks.

An internationally coordinated tsunami warning system already exists in the Pacific Ocean the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Tsunami Warning System.

Any development of a regional warning system should be part of an integrated global system.

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2. Establishment of a surveillance list and an early warning system

The system consisted of four parts a seismic detection system, a dual telecommunications system, a central control system and a radio warning system for the public.

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GIEWS Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (FAO)

We view this system as an important stage in the establishment of a global disaster early warning system.

In the lower Juba Valley the ICRC water and sanitation teams set up a system for chlorinating the flood water, thus providing thousands of flood victims in isolated places with access to safe drinking water.

Flood in Shandong.

(b) A regional early warning system, such as a Regional Tsunami Early Warning Centre, in the Indian Ocean and the South East Asia region.

The implementation of a global warning system should be carried out by expanding the existing UNESCO tsunami warning system in the Pacific Ocean into the Indian Ocean and anywhere coastal communities are threatened by tsunamis.

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7. Reaffirms that all regional efforts should serve the purpose of strengthening international cooperation aimed at the creation of a global multihazard early warning system, including the newly established Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System

This all hazards philosophy should permeate thinking on the development of a global warning system.

We support the establishment of an early warning system, as recommended by the ASEAN countries.

A joint Southern effort to create a warning system for disasters was already being planned.

The agenda of the conference had included the establishment of a disaster early warning system.

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For such activities, information and an effective early warning and rapid reaction system were essential.

It was necessary to enhance the existing system that provided early warning of potential risks.

We also call on the international community to make every effort to ensure the setting up of the Indian Ocean tsunami early warning system, as well as the worldwide multihazard early warning system, as soon as possible.

The Humanitarian Early Warning System (HEWS) of DHA draws on the work of existing early warning mechanisms within and outside the United Nations system and brings sectoral information together with more specific socio economic and political information.

The United States strongly supports a global warning system, conducted under the aegis of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).

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(a) Development of its early warning system, including the Situation Room of the Conflict Management Centre

(a) Development of its early warning system, including the Situation Room of the Conflict Management Directorate

My country fully supports the establishment of a worldwide early warning system for all natural hazards.

Early warning systems Most countries either did not report on this or had no operational system.

Regional institutions3 are contributing to the establishment of a tsunami early warning system for the region.