The consequences of the storm are immense as immediate issues present themselves, such as food shortages, contaminated water supplies, sanitation problems, damaged infrastructure, communication break downs and inflation.

Agricultural regions have been devastated causing food and fuel prices to increase beyond their 300% and the already impoverished people of this region have felt the full force of this storm. Without immediate help, the people of Burma will feel the effects of this tragedy for years to come.

The cyclone has polluted much of the water supplies in the affected areas and clean water and water purification is urgently required. Shelter is required for at least 100,000 people in the short term. Food supply will be required - as much of the rice paddy has been inundated with silt and stores have been destroyed (likely to be an ongoing issue until the next rice harvest) - and further exacerbated by the international food shortages

Infrastructure, already degraded through decades of neglect, has been badly affected (some reports suggest as much as 95% of the housing and infrastructure such as roads and bridges along the cyclone's path is destroyed) - this will take years to rebuild.