There is still no water!
Brazil is suffering its worst drought for 80 years.
Sao Paolo is the worlds 12th largest city, has a municipal population of nearly 12 million and more than 20 million in the metropolitan area.
Brazil has been called the Saudi Arabia of water, with fully 12 per cent of the world's freshwater supplies yet Brazil's largest city is starting to properly run dry.
It's insane.
We're just now at the tail end of what's supposed to be the region's rainy season, but for this past month, many of the nearly 12 million residents of Sao Paulo have been forced to severely ration what little water they get.
Some go days without water. Others can access water but only at specific times.
How can deforestation, corruption and population growth have been handled so badly in a country normally flooded with H2O.
It's little wonder the local currency (the real) is in trouble, foreign money leaving at an increasingly rapid rate and the Consumer Price Index there is not good reading. The political elite are finding it hard to focus as many are embroiled in the massive petrochemical fraud affair.
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