Brazil Drought

[Smurf1976]

Things are looking pretty grim in Brazil it seems. Sao Paulo, population 20 million, is practically out of water and now the power's starting to fail too.

Not good. I can't even imagine what they'll do should they actually run completely dry. 20 million people - you can't just send a few truck loads of water in to fix that.

http://www.independent.co.uk/enviro...-at-its-lowest-level-since-1930-10000734.html

 

[burglar]

... you can't just send a few truck loads of water in to fix that.

And in Australia, some are bemoaning the spending on Desal. plants!

 

[pixel]

And in Australia, some are bemoaning the spending on Desal. plants!

If they run out of power, even desal plants aren't much use.
Also, SP isn't that close to the Ocean either. Check the map...

 

[burglar]

If they run out of power, even desal plants aren't much use.
Also, SP isn't that close to the Ocean either. Check the map...

Just saying, people are shortsighted!

 

[Trevor_S]

Just saying, people are shortsighted!

One just has to look to how ineffective we have been in mitigating emissions to amolerate the effect of climate change to see that as the classic example of myopia. Planets biosphere headed for collapse ? Screw that. I want to drive my car

That aside, I have been following this guy in Sao Paulo and his observations on the seeming, looming, catastrophe.

http://peakoil.com/forums/s-america-s-largest-city-on-verge-of-collapse-pt-2-t70883-140.html