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Water War Amid Brazil Drought Leads to Fight Over Puddles – Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brazil<\/a>\u2019s Jaguari reservoir has fallen to its lowest level ever, laying bare measurement posts that jut from exposed earth like a line of dominoes. The nation\u2019s two biggest cities are fighting for what little water is left.<\/p>\n

Sao Paulo state leaders want to tap Jaguari, which feeds Rio de Janeiro\u2019s main source. Rio state officials say they shouldn\u2019t suffer for others\u2019 mismanagement. Supreme Court judges have summoned the parties to Brasilia for a mediation session this week.<\/p>\n

The standoff in a nation with morewater resources<\/a>\u00a0than any other country in the world portends further conflicts as the planet grows increasingly urban. One in three of the world\u2019s 100 biggest cities is under water stress, according to The Nature Conservancy, a U.S.-based nonprofit.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unusual in that it\u2019s two very large cities facing what could be a new, permanent conflict over the allocation of water,\u201d said Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, a research organization in Oakland,\u00a0California<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a wake-up call that even places we think of as water-rich have to learn to do a better job of managing what\u2019s ultimately a scarce resource. Nature doesn\u2019t always cooperate with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Water War Amid Brazil Drought Leads to Fight Over Puddles – Bloomberg. Brazil\u2019s Jaguari reservoir has fallen to its lowest level ever, laying bare measurement posts that jut from exposed earth like a line of dominoes. The nation\u2019s two biggest cities are fighting for what little water is left. Sao Paulo state leaders want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1413,220,866,913],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-brasil","tag-drought","tag-water","tag-water-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}