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Weekly Report - 29 January 2015 (WR-15-04)
BRAZIL: São Paulo plans further water rationing in April
While rainfall in the state of São Paulo has been lower than average over the past three years, the current water shortage has been caused less by the lack of rain, and more by infrastructure failures and poor governance. On 28 January, the governor of São Paulo, Geraldo Alckmin, announced that water rationing would begin in the first fortnight of April. For many of the residents of the poorer periphery of the city of São Paulo, unofficial rationing began months ago. But in the most drastic scenario envisaged by the state water utility company, Sabesp, residents could be limited to just two days’ supply of water per week.
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