Earlier this year, São Paulo, endowed with the Amazon and many other rivers, stated their taps are running dry.
It's common in the northeast of Brazil to run dry as they are located in an area where it doesn't rain very often. Eight cities in the northeast of Brazil suffered dries over the last decades: Alagoas, Ceará , Bahia, Minas Gerais, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe). The Brazilian government always knew about the problems in the Northeast, but little help was given to them.
Suddenly, all attention is in São Paulo, as the largest and wealthiest city in Brazil is enduring water cutoffs, and going days without it.
Paulo Massato, a senior official at São Paulo's water utility, said that residents might have to be warned to flee because "there's not enough water, they won't be water bathe, to clean" homes.
"Because of environmental degradation and political cowardice, millions of people in São Paulo are now wondering when the water will run out," said Marússia Whately, a water specialist at Instituto Socioambiental, a Brazilian environmental group.
Public schools are prohibiting students from using water, and some of them are currently closed. Families are saving water in buckets to wash clothes or flush toilets. Around 30 million are frighted by Brazilian's natural disaster and fear for their future!
Experts say that the city's grown population, leaking systems that spill on water, and pollution is the caused for the main reservoir run dry. Destruction of forests and wetlands also have a link to the tragedy.
"This is Brazil, where human beings are treated worse than dogs by our own politicians," said owner of a bar in Parque Alexandra, Maria da Fátima Ribeiro.
It's sad but it's true. Brazilians want to see a great change. It's time to have new politicians and a new government.
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| Seca no Nordeste, Brasil. |
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