If there is no intervention, then we could be talking about the same disaster we had in 2000.

The drought is already here. This is our warning that without immediate help...there will be deaths. We are still assessing the situation rather than making emergency interventions. We have to move quickly.

People will die because we are already too late with our help. This is our warning that without immediate help a famine will soon follow.

It's too soon to say if we'll see any flooding anywhere from this. But we're talking to Disaster and Emergency Service and establishing lines of communication. We'll keep them apprised of what we're looking at.

You're talking about an ecological disaster of unprecedented proportion,

It may sound strange that we are still talking life saving two weeks after the disaster, when search and rescue operations have largely finished.