(18 Feb 2008)
1. Various of outskirts of Trinidad completely flooded
2. Group of children playing in the flooded water
3. Pan of flooded neighbourhood
4. Plane arriving at Trinidad airport carrying aid
5. Various of workers unloading aid from plane
6. Set up shot of journalist interviewing Carlos Dellien, Director of the Emergency Operations Centre
7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Carlos Dellien, Director of the Emergency Operations Centre:
"In general, the main health problems are skin diseases, diarrhoeas, lung infections and also we have confirmed several cases of dengue and one case of hemorrhagic fever in the Itenes province."
8. Mid of plane on tarmac
9. Tilt up on flooded house
STORYLINE:
Aid from foreign countries continued to arrive on Sunday at Trinidad's airport, where heavy rains have pushed floodwaters within centimetres (inches) of topping a raised highway protecting the eastern provincial capital.
Bolivia may relocate whole neighbourhoods of flood-ravaged Trinidad after waters swamped the eastern lowland city two years in a row, leaving thousands homeless.
Trinidad, a city plaza, has been converted into a refugee camp for people fleeing the town's flooded outskirts.
Flooding across Bolivia's eastern lowlands has killed at least 54 people and forced the evacuation of some 43-thousand families since last November, according to Bolivian officials.
It's not only the lowlands that are suffering the devastating effects of the floods.
It is not only the lowlands that are suffering the devastating effects of the floods, many residents in the capital La Paz, high in the Andes, are living under severe water rationing because of rain-triggered landslides last month ruptured water mains throughout the city.
The repeated flooding poses a fearsome challenge to South America's poorest country.
Some scientists believe higher ocean temperatures caused by global warming boost the amount of moisture in the air and cause the El Nino weather pattern - and its echo, La Nina - to occur more frequently and cause more intense climate disruptions.
Trinidad was founded on the banks of the Mamore River by Spanish missionaries in 1686, but frequent flooding there led people to move several miles west in 1769.
But the city of 90-thousand people still sits in the middle of a vast, low plain between the Andes to the south and the Amazon to the north a natural rain gutter that handles the runoff from most of Bolivia.
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