Your current location:HOME >style >Too much water, and not enough: Brazil's flooded south struggles to find basic goods 正文
TIME:2024-05-08 09:48:21 Source: Internet compilationEdit:style
TORRES, Brazil (AP) — A mayor in southern Brazil asked residents to ration water Tuesday in a state
TORRES, Brazil (AP) — A mayor in southern Brazil asked residents to ration water Tuesday in a state capital where some 80% of the population is without running water, a week after massive flooding that has left at least 90 people dead and more than 130 missing.
Efforts were continuing to rescue people stranded by the f loods in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, as more rains were forecast for the region into next week. The capital, Porto Alegre, has been virtually cut off, with the airport and bus station closed and main roads blocked due to the floodwaters.
Five of the city’s six water treatment facilities aren’t working, and Porto Alegre Mayor Sebastião Melo ordered that water be used exclusively for “essential consumption.” Local shops have also been short on water supplies.
“We are living an unprecedented natural disaster and everyone needs to help,” Melo told journalists. “The shortage is real and it will take some time until it goes back to normal.”
Murder trial opens in death of Detroit2024-05-08 09:36
Judge hits the tiebreaking single in 9th as Yankees rally to avoid sweep with 62024-05-08 08:24
Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester gets into character as she joins co2024-05-08 07:55
Kanye West sheds his usual all2024-05-08 07:47
US service member shot and killed by Florida police identified by the Air Force2024-05-08 07:29
Hoda Kotb, 59, reveals she is STILL single and 'looking for the one'2024-05-08 07:28
Blues and Brumbies to meet in a pivotal Super Rugby Pacific showdown; Fijians host the Hurricanes2024-05-08 07:23
Tori Spelling, 50, brags she has the 'lady parts of a 142024-05-08 07:23
Ancelotti keeps Lunin in goal for Madrid in 2nd leg of Champions League semifinal against Bayern2024-05-08 07:22
Bruno Tonioli, 68, reveals he needs Botox after feeling 'wrinkly' next to Britain's Got Talent co2024-05-08 07:14
Judge delays murder trial for Indiana man charged in 2017 slayings of 2 teenage girls2024-05-08 09:31
Panama's presidential frontrunner skips third and final debate ahead of May 5 election2024-05-08 09:29
A Simple Favor 2 star Henry Golding dishes on hotly2024-05-08 09:29
Vermont farms are still recovering from flooding as they enter the growing season2024-05-08 09:14
Police investigating shooting outside Drake's mansion that left security guard wounded2024-05-08 09:09
Sydney shopping mall reopens after stabbings. Police make first arrest in riot after church attack2024-05-08 09:04
Khloe Kardashian, 39, cradles 'my baby' Tatum, 20 months, on private jet in heart2024-05-08 08:20
Schumer says US will provide $6.1 billion to Micron Technology for chip plants in NY, Idaho2024-05-08 08:15
Ben Affleck did NOT get plastic surgery ahead of Tom Brady's Netflix roast2024-05-08 08:01
Trump wins Idaho's Republican presidential caucus2024-05-08 07:57