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142 Cities In Brazil Are Now Rationing Water As Drought Goes Critical
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The American Dream blog,
Did you know that the drought in Brazil is so bad that some neighborhoods are only being allowed to get water once every three days? At this point, 142 Brazilian cities are rationing water and there does not appear to be much hope that this crippling drought is going to end any time soon. Unfortunately, most Americans seem to be absolutely clueless about all of this.
In response to the recent article about how the unprecedented drought that is plaguing California right now could affect our food supply, one individual left a comment stating “if Califirnia can’t supply South America will. We got NAFTA.” Apart from the fact that this person could not even spell “California” correctly, we also see a complete ignorance of what is going on in the rest of the planet. The truth is that the largest country in South America (Brazil) is also experiencing an absolutely devastating drought at the moment. They are going to have a very hard time just taking care of their own people for the foreseeable future.
And this horrendous drought in Brazil could potentially have a huge impact on the total global food supply. As a recent RT article detailed, Brazil is the leading exporter in the world in a number of very important food categories…
Over 140 Brazilian cities have been pushed to ration water during the worst drought on record, according to a survey conducted by the country’s leading newspaper. Some neighborhoods only receive water once every three days.
Water is being rationed to nearly 6 million people living in a total of 142 cities across 11 states in Brazil, the world’s leading exporter of soybeans, coffee, orange juice, sugar and beef. Water supply companies told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that the country’s reservoirs, rivers and streams are the driest they have been in 20 years. A record heat wave could raise energy prices and damage crops.
Some neighborhoods in the city of Itu in Sao Paulo state (which accounts for one-quarter of Brazil’s population and one-third of its GDP), only receive water once every three days, for a total of 13 hours.
Are you starting to see what I mean?
This is serious.
The drought in North America also continues to get even worse. According to an expert interviewed by National Geographic, this drought in the state of California “could last for 200 years or more”…
B. Lynn Ingram, a paleoclimatologist at the University of California at Berkeley, thinks that California needs to brace itself for a megadrought—one that could last for 200 years or more.
As a paleoclimatologist, Ingram takes the long view, examining tree rings and microorganisms in ocean sediment to identify temperatures and dry periods of the past millennium. Her work suggests that droughts are nothing new to California.
A drought of even 10 years would absolutely cripple this nation. Already, the size of the total U.S. cattle herd is the smallest that it has been in 63 years and California farmers are going to let half a million acres sit idle this year because of the extremely dry conditions. If this drought persists for several more years we will have an unprecedented crisis on our hands.
Unfortunately, there are signs that this current drought in California may be part of a larger trend. I had never heard of “the Pacific Decadal Oscillation” before this week, but apparently it is a phenomenon that can cause droughts that last “for decades“…
Ingram and other paleoclimatologists have correlated several historic megadroughts with a shift in the surface temperature of the Pacific Ocean that occurs every 20 to 30 years—something called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). The PDO is similar to an El Nino event except it lasts for decades—as its name implies—whereas an El Nino event lasts 6 to 18 months. Cool phases of the PDO result in less precipitation because cooler sea temperatures bump the jet stream north, which in turn pushes off storms that would otherwise provide rain and snow to California. Ingram says entire lakes dried up in California following a cool phase of the PDO several thousand years ago.
And of course it isn’t just the western half of the country that is struggling with water supply problems. In the Southeast, water has been a major political issue for quite some time…
The drought-parched states of Georgia, Alabama and Florida are back at it — fighting for a slice of water rights in a decades-long water war that’s left all three thirsty for more.
The 24-year dispute is emblematic of an increasingly common economic problem facing cities and states across the country – the demand for water quickly outpacing the supply as spikes in population soak up resources.
Most of us that live in the United States are accustomed to having seemingly inexhaustible supplies of fresh water. We use more fresh water per capita than anyone else on the planet, and most of us never even think twice about it.
Unfortunately, things are changing. We are on the precipice of a great water crisis, and many Americans are going to be in for a very rude awakening.
And the frightening thing is that the U.S. is actually in much better shape than most of the rest of the world is when it comes to supplies of fresh water. In some areas of the globe, a “water crisis” is already a daily reality.
We have heard that someday water is going to become the “new oil”, and we are starting to get to that point. Life is simply not possible without water, and as global supplies of clean, fresh water dwindle it is inevitable that it is going to cause global tensions to rise.
So what do you think the solutions to these problems are?
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Eat less meat, it takes 300 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of meat.
long H2O
long co2
So much hysterical doom porn.....
It's an infrastructure issue in very specific places, not a generalized lack of water throughout the country. It says more to the disorganization and incompetence of governance than to whether or not there's water available.
Chega de fofoca....
Saudações de Sul Fluminense
So, the drought is just an infrastructure problem?
So, the infrstructure is causing Brazilian commodities prices to jump?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-18/starbucks-favored-coffee-jumps-...
Yes, they have the Amazon - the world's biggest river in volume terms. And hundreds of other huge tributaries. So it IS an infrastructure problem.
I guess my first request/suggested solution would be that whoever the fuck is spraying all that shit in the air on a more or less continuous basis stop doing it. If there's one thing I'm pretty damn confident of, its our inability to safely and effectively 'geoengineer' fixes to the climate. At least when the banks fuck around with their derivatives and market manipulations it's only money.
Soultion 1) Stop suppressing Zero Point Energy, aka, Permanent Magnet Motors. With the "free" energy, then distill ocean water and as a bonus, sell the sea salt.
Solution 2) Engineer the weather to make it rain.
Solution 3) Get a rapper to make it rain.
Pardon me, the "Stargate: Atlantis" convention is in the next room over.
First cut the water off to NSA. They need water to keep their computers cool. That would be a start.
how to turn a rain forrest in a desert.
Let's see: We have the WORLDS LARGEST FUCKING RIVER
and
the WORLDS LARGEST FUCKING FOREST
AND YET we're unable to burn wood to boil water for drinking?
???
We do?
I'd check your atlas or encyclopedia on both counts.
The Brazilians do, it was a rhetorical "we". Why can't they get no aqua. I know they speak portugese, but I don't, so pidgin spahniz will have to since those poor motherfuckers appear to need any hep they can getz.
Porky son tienes sed?
Take some of those fucking empty bean cans, march your ass to the river, take your filthy garment off and use it to filter out some of that there cholera and sewage chunks. Get some sticks from that worlds largest expanse of timber you got, rub those motherfuckers together until you make fire, set that can full of water on top of the fire and boil for 10 (DIEZ) menudos.
Let that shit cool ass erca day imbebimente.
Solved.
and they probably already smoked or wiped their asses with all those RIF encylopedias we sent them years ago.
What? you actually believe in that Reading Is Fun bull shit fairytale?
Most of the Amazon is cut down. The rest will be cut soon. Then the whole damn basin will dry up and convert to desert. I hope you enjoyed your sugar rush, idiots.
Can't we just print more money to make this situation go away. As I say at home to the family, Krugman knows best. They all nod compliantly, sometimes even apathetically, if not apoplectically after hearing me drone on and jizz in my pants about the lovable Ben Bernanke, and the oh so hot to trot Janet Yellow bellied sap sucker Yellen. Most of the time I am ignored, except when I talk about free money. There is no drought, there is no spoon, there's just me and my keynesian buddies making it up as we go along.
I'm tired of this guy piecing together snipits of articles, adding a few words to scare people into thinking the end is here...and then other people thinking he is some genius or so aware! Ooohhhh....Michael, what is your next hard hitting analysis? Cut and paste an article about an avalanche in the Himalayas and that it means all the ice in the world is going to melt! The ONLY guy worse than this is the joker who has been warning of a stock crash for 3 years...the Phoenix Investment guy...I guess if you take a position and stick to it looonnngggg enough...you will be right!
Very good point.
Global warmists are likewise propagandists: take snippets from approved sources, rip them out of context, build a catastrophic thesis that depends on a narrow time-frame to lend a false sense of urgency, and then push it out as an inconvenient truth, usually as justification to accept some new bit of cash-cow statism/collectivism.
The PDO has been understood and anticipated for a long time. Analysis needs to be tempered with understanding that the transition is gradual and influenced by other factors, like El Nino and sunspots and high-altitude volcanic ash. Agriculture has come a long way since the last PDO rotation. The ability to grow crops in new areas will benefit countries that were previously handicapped by lack of development.
Wow, so how did all the experts miss your interpretation? Especially since it's all been measured...
Why didnt the PDO and El Nino warm us before this signoficantly? Moreover the PDO is in its cooling mode.. It would seem that volcanos ain't the only ones blowing smoke here.. Sunspots have decoupled from the temperature trend 40 years ago...
Sorry, all I see is bunch of bullshit sophistry and serious ideological projection...
It won't be long before some genius gets a lot of media facetime by proposing to lasso iceburgs and bring them to California (Arctic Burgs) and Brazil ( Antarctic Burgs).
It's happened before - the suggestion, not the iceburg 'solution'.
You can lead a horse to the largest river in the world, the amazon, but you can't make it drink.
Horses: yes, I've heard. But what about miserable little banilou peoples?
Ok, like, I'm seeing that these 142 cities are are in desperate need of astroglide. This is no laughing matter.
California is going to require air drops of astroglide, hair pomade, and amyl nitrate. California: it's time to ask; what can Brown do for you?
God Bless Amerika.
This is why your preps should include water, water purification, and gold/silver. Water if everything is cut off, water purification if the cut off lasts longer than your water supply, and gold/silver in case you need to buy more water (or get out of Dodge).
And don't forget the astroglide.
"So what do you think the solutions to these problems are?"
I'd be willing to bet that there is plenty of bottled water for sale in Brazil... If there isn't, there soon will be.
Solution? Stop the chemtrails?
\facepalm....
Apologies if you forgot the sarc flag
time to irrigate the amazon until it dries up like the columbia river. so cal needs to go to where the water is. maybe they can try to dry up the rio grande.
California coming after MY source of water? Over my dead body. Texas might have something to say about that too.
this could be fun. so cal wackos against texas rednecks with wetbacks siding with whoever promises water until they don't give it to them. i think the mexicans win this time. they work for less pay and rations and don't complain.
Doesn't it rain every day in a rainforest? Oh, I forgot, they cut it down to grow sugar to burn in cars.
A drought in the midst of Brazil's growing season.
A drought already in CA with no snow in the rockys to replenish the water supply for this summer's growing season.
And a flood this spring down through the Mississippi valley and this seal just might open by next winter:
Revelation 6:5-6 And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, Come. And I saw, and behold, a black horse; and he that sat thereon had a balance in his hand. (6) And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A measure of wheat for a shilling, and three measures of barley for a shilling; and the oil and the wine hurt thou not.
Water should be priced by a free market. If people paid the true market value of a toilet flush or a shower, then usage would be rationalized. The private water compaines would invest what is needed to bring water to market, and price according to cost plus a little profit. I believe that Chile privatized water, business was buying rivers, lakes and springs from landowners, even rivers that were nowhere near a major market, just to get the rights in hopes of a future profit potential. Giving water away at the tap is proving a disaster, as people have no reason not to run the tap for ever. Private water companies would compete for customers by offering the best water at the lowest prices. Is there any argument against free enterprise and the privitization of all water resources?
I live on Lake Superior, look at a map, you will see water is not my problem. In fact, I would go long any company that bought Lake Superior and then brought it to market, I see good long term profit potential there. Canada and my part of the USA are flush with water, rivers and so many thousands of lakes it is a waste of time to even try to count them. Once these go on the market and water companies begin to distribute the water, America's water shortages will be a thing of the past. According to the theory, this plan should work at zero cost to the taxpayer, and no public employees would be needed. A win win in every sense. I'll need to check and see how Chile's water businesses are doing after that privitization that took place well over a decade ago I believe.
Also, if Russia were smart, they would allow private compaines to buy the Amur River and a host of lakes and rivers in the Russian Far East, said companies could sell water to China at profits even oil companies could never dream of.
Private water companies own no water to sell: they steal it from locals THEN sell it.
That's not a free market. They need to be ended. That water is already spoken for & its owners have already spoken: NO SALE but they are given no choice.
This has to be from some global warming propaganda of some kind. The southe american soy bean harvest , with all the difficulties will be the largest on record. If this is the damage of global warming, then bring it on. Go back and continue suking al goores cok.
2 years from now Faber will be reminding you he was long on Brazilian H2O in 2013
I did not know that Brazil was having such a drought. Them being below the equator and all, I can't even see them from my doorstep. Is not good news for anyone.
Cool phases of the PDO result in less precipitation because cooler sea temperatures bump the jet stream north.
But the greenies just this week were saying that Mother Nature has been hiding all the global *warming* in the waters of the Pacific and THAT has bumped the jet stream north.
We have heard that someday water is going to become the “new oil”, and we are starting to get to that point.
Yupadupadingdong.
We can easily get water for the cities in California via desalination, especially if we also develop (frack) the Monterrey shale to get the energy to run it, but even windmills will largely do for desalination, at something of a discount. However this does not answer for all the water used by agriculture. Maybe some large part of it, say a third to half, can be saved by building mass quantities of greenhouses, but then that cost needs to be amortized too. And of course with the enviro laws it takes ten years to permit the desalination plants and then two or three years to build them. Well, time to begin, anyway. Could probably all be done in less than a year on an emergency basis.
Meanwhile the Fed can print the money that Obama and Governor Moonbeam think will help, and maybe they can print some more water while they're at it.
Good thing there's no global warming, must be all that global cooling causing drought in the fucking RAIN FOREST.