*blinks* Clash of cultures again, I think. If this was happening here (and hell, it has happened here, like back in the 1970s when Darwin was pretty much destroyed by Cyclone Tracey), it'd be the government's responsibility to provide aid and assistance. Non-profit organisations like the Red Cross also get involved, but disaster-relief funding in Australia comes from federal and state governments. It's considered part of the whole providing infrastructure thing, same as providing a police force and State Emergency Services.
Considering the water is contaminated by oil, battery acid, sewerage and dead bodies, both human and animal, I think people are going to have to do a hell of a lot more than boil it. Like Amanda said, air drops of food, water and medicine at the very least, if evacuation is so impossible.
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Date: 2005-09-02 01:10 pm (UTC)Considering the water is contaminated by oil, battery acid, sewerage and dead bodies, both human and animal, I think people are going to have to do a hell of a lot more than boil it. Like Amanda said, air drops of food, water and medicine at the very least, if evacuation is so impossible.