Volunteers form a human corridor to receive boats with people rescued from flooded areas at the Sao Joao neighborhood in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, on May 7, 2024.Devastating floods in the south Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul have killed dozens of people and displaced thousands more over the past several days, in one of the most catastrophic natural disasters the country has seen in decades., a number that is expected to increase substantially in the coming days.
Access to safe drinking water in the state’s capital city of Porto Alegre is also a problem, with around 80 percent of the city lacking running water due to the floods.South of Brazil is living the worst flood of history. At the city of Lajeado the river height surpassed the record of 100 feet high from 1941 and 2023. God bless our people.More than 265 municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul have been affected by the floods.
Several scientists have stated outright that two factors are to blame for the floods — the El Niño and La Niña weather patterns for this year, and the effects of human-made global climate change.a “disastrous cocktail.” Brazilian climate activist Bruon Brezenski has described the devastation wrought by the storms as “a war scene.”cities of tomorrow's world are already here. Major flooding events and sea level rise are already built into the system with the current level of warming.
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