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[...] [...] because they burn or drown due to the impacts [...]

If climate change does put about a third of the country’s land under water as predicted, a wide variety of measures need to be addressed urgently.

A girl collects leftover household goods from her semi-submerged home while her parents watch.

[...] [...] and Plans”) covering each previous calendar year; that it had achieved a significant level of implementation of activities initiated with previously approved tranches; and that the rate of disbursement of funding available from the previously approved tranche was more than 20 per cent; and (d) That the Country has submitted an annual implementation plan in the form of Appendix 4-A covering each calendar [...] [...]

the threat of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal being ‘swamped’ by the influx of new cases ‘before it has really got up and running’ would ’severely prejudice the implementation of the new system’”.

Due to a sequence of unfortunate events, a large part of the Upper Sterling power station was submerged in water.

[...] [...] impact and inundation modelling, [...] [...]

The activities undertaken within this function will include: (a) producing country, regional and global-level technical and programme guidance covering the substantive areas in which UN-Women works, from ending violence against women to increasing women’s contributions to peace and security; (b) devising and coordinating multi-stakeholder, holistic country programmes that involve inter-agency participation and national partners in line with national and regional policies and priorities and that are consistent with UN-Women’s Strategic Plan; (c) ongoing, on-demand technical support to national partners and UNCTs in UN-Women’s core areas of work (e.g., support to NWMs; support to women’s organizations and networks; support to the Resident Coordinator and gender thematic groups; and support to reporting on and implementing CEDAW); and (d) the management and monitoring of global programmes and trust funds.

[...] [...] reports, covering the formal system [...] [...]

[...] [...] weak do not get drowned out, lost or unheeded

Even the headquarters of the armed forces was inundated by more than a metre of water, adding to confusion and delay.

The extensive flooding in north New Territories in September this year and the flooding of the Tuen Mun pumping station a week ago once more exposed the Government's gross inadequacies both in preventing floods and in dealing with flood emergencies.

Anyone who receives, deposits, trades in, converts or transfers money, securities, property or other financial resources in the knowledge that they are derived from activities related to drug trafficking, fraud, illicit arms trafficking, trafficking in persons, kidnapping, extortion, embezzlement, corruption of public servants, terrorist acts, theft or international trafficking in vehicles, as provided for under Panamanian criminal law, with the aim of hiding or concealing their illicit origin or of helping to evade the legal consequences of such crimes shall be sentenced to 5 to 12 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 100 to 200 days.

The Commission was informed of initiatives that were being undertaken by Pacific island developing countries to protect biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystem services, such as the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in Kiribati, the largest marine protected area in the Pacific Ocean, and the Coral Triangle Initiative, which covered a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, included the greatest extent of mangrove forests in the world and provided a critical spawning and juvenile growth area for tuna and other globally significant fish species.

Furthermore, even before sea-level rise actually submerges an island, its impacts may render it uninhabitable, requiring permanent resettlement.

Since 80 percent of the Maldives’ 1,200 islands are about 1 metre above sea level, they could be partly submerged by the end of the century.

With reference to the well-established practice of bodies such as the Human Rights Committee and the Committee against Torture, the Special Rapporteur concludes that these techniques involve conduct that amounts to a breach of the prohibition against torture and any form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

[...] the truth will be drowned and concealed forever [...]

Another minor interviewed alleged that he had been subjected to the “dry submarine” treatment and that he had been punched in the head and received blows all over his body to make him reveal the whereabouts of a stolen object as well as to confess to other offences that he claimed not to have committed.

But then the under-river subway tunnels flooded, and the MTA had to convey to riders what was and wasn’t running.

We also remember here the victims of the war crimes committed against the civilian population in Croatia, in particular in Škabrnja, Zadar, Šibenik, Kijevo, Vrlika, Sinj and other towns attacked by the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) under orders of Ratko Mladić while he was commander of the Ninth Corps of the JNA based in Knin, Croatia; as well as his orders to launch indiscriminate attacks against civilian objects, knowing that such attacks would cause excessive loss of life or injury to civilians, in particular his attempt of flooding a large populated area by destroying the Peruča Dam.

Many inhabitants lost their houses and farms to the inundation of sea water.

Popular fancy loved to dwell on his avatar as a fish to save Manu from the devastating flood, as a tortoise to recover from the depths of the sea precious possessions for gods and men, as a boar to raise the submerged earth above the surface of the waters, but most of all as the god-men Rama and Krishna, each of whom delivered the people from the yoke of a tyrant.

2.3.26.3.1 Constructing the CWB as an immersed tube tunnel, without reclamation over the top of it, will result in problems associated mainly with the fact that the tunnel structure will be above seabed level (it is assumed that this is what Mr. Lok refers to as “partially submerged tubes”).

Section 253(a), (b) and (c) define waters and encompass offshore areas such as seas, including those over which Australia asserts sovereign rights under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973, as per section 6 of the Native Title Act.

It applies therefore to all kinds of waters, including inland waters not of maritime character (for instance flooded caves, lakes and rivers), internal waters of maritime character (for instance bays and gulfs), [Spain: (for instance bays, estuaries and ports and gulfs)], archipelagic waters, the territorial seas of States Parties, their exclusive economic zones, [Spain: their contiguous zone], (hereinafter “EEZ”), and continental shelves.

When the sea surface is rough, it can also be difficult or impossible to see less buoyant oil types, particularly if weathered, as they can be swamped by waves, and remain just sub-surface for much of the time.