Text interpretation: The water crisis in Brazil

Text interpretation activity, suitable for students in the ninth year of elementary school, based on the text “The water crisis in Brazil”.

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The water crisis in Brazil

The water crisis affects several parts of Brazil, especially in the Southeast. The most profound effects are noticed in the state of São Paulo. Without a prospect of recovering the reservoirs that supply the largest metropolitan region in the Brazil, Sabesp, the supply company, announced in recent days that it is considering adopting a drastic rationing. If implanted, it will be five days without water and two with. The government of SP also decided to enlist the help of companies specializing in water resources to present very short-term proposals for the crisis. The meeting should take place in the next few days. The city halls of the most affected municipalities also started to organize themselves in meetings to think about solutions together with the federal government. However, political movement is late. According to this special about the Water Crisis, made by the website of Revista Superinteressante, the problem has been known since 2004.

A recently released survey by USP's Luiz de Queiroz School of Agriculture (Esalq), in Piracicaba, found that The current situation of the Cantareira System is a governance problem, accentuated by climate issues and its reality socioenvironmental. Lack of articulation and dialogue also contributed to the system's collapse. Between 2013 and 2014, the Master and Doctor in Applied Ecology, Micheli Kowalczuk Machado, conducted studies that show that currently there is no interaction mechanism between the actions of the Conservation Units and the Basin Committees Hydrographics. “Articulated actions between these organizations are essential and increasingly necessary to seek solutions”, he says. According to Micheli, the population must be really involved in the discussions, so there is also a need to develop strategies that increase participation and social mobilization and that work the dialogue of you know…

http://brasilescola.uol.com.br/geografia/escassez-agua-no-brasil.htm

In light of the above information, answer:

1.Explain the sentence: … the water crisis in São Paulo was aggravated by a governance problem… What does this mean?

2.What is water rationing?

3.According to your knowledge of the world, why is water shortage occurring in our country? Name at least one factor relevant to the crisis.

1. Does the lack of water in Brazil only affect the availability of treated water in homes? Comment.

5.Do you think the lack of water can impact our economy? In what way? Comment.

6.Analyze the chart above and answer:

The. What is the sector that consumes the most water in our country? Because?

B. What is the sector that consumes the least water in our country?

ç. What is the second largest sector that consumes water in Brazil? Because?

By Rosiane Fernandes Silva

At answers are in the link above the header.