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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 8972727" data-attributes="member: 92282">United Nations agencies are helping the  Government of Sri Lanka address the humanitarian needs of more than  100,000 people affected by flash floods and landslides over the past  month as heavy rains continue to fall.  The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is  providing hygiene kits and water purification tablets as rising  floodwaters threaten an outbreak of dengue fever. Measures have been  taken to spray mosquito breeding sites.  According to latest information from local authorities and the Disaster  Management Centre, over 105,000 people are affected, nearly 95,000 of  them in five northern districts where several roads have been cut off or  damaged by extensive flooding in the last week, hindering access, the  UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today.  Conditions in some zones of the Menik Farm camp in Vavuniya, with some  20,000 internally displaced people, have deteriorated, with four blocks  flooded, and four shelters have been damaged by strong winds, OCHA  reported. Rising ground water levels have placed the camp’s water and  sanitation infrastructure under pressure and overwhelmed the drainage  system.<a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37030&Cr=sri+lanka&Cr1=" target="_blank">UN news</a></blockquote>

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