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Southeastern Brazil’s drought has dried up once plentiful reservoirs to seriously low levels, causing the country’s most populous city of Sao Paulo to consider having their water turned off five days a week.
Brazil’s record drought has dried up once plentiful reservoirs to seriously low levels, causing the country’s most populous city of Sao Paulo to consider having their water turned off five days a week.
A recent NASA study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research has attributed conflict in the Middle East, at least in part, to a series of droughts caused by man-made climate change.
Brazil is facing one of the worst droughts in its history with reservoirs running dry and power outages in many cities. Inadequate water management, increased urbanization, and deforestation in the Amazon are all factors behind the severe drought.
Images of monster floods and waterlogged streets in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Floods have devastated the state of Rio Grande do Sul, of which Porto Alegre is the capital, leaving at least 60 people dead and 70,000 evacuees. IMAGES