{"id":165934,"date":"2015-01-24T16:32:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T18:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=165934"},"modified":"2015-02-24T17:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T20:15:26","slug":"scientists-speak-about-the-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/scientists-speak-about-the-water-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Speak About the Water Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"dANIEL BUENO<\/span>On December 12, 2014, the Brazilian Academy of Science (ABC) published its Carta de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/i><\/em> (S\u00e3o Paulo Letter), a document that presents analyses and makes recommendations for dealing with the water crisis in Southeastern Brazil. Produced under the coordination of researcher Jos\u00e9 Galizia Tundisi from the International Institute of Ecology (IIE), the document asks for immediate changes in the way water resources are administered. \u201cModernizing and streamlining the management systems is absolutely necessary,\u201d the scientists state in the letter. According to experts, there is a real threat to water security in the Southeast, especially in Metropolitan S\u00e3o Paulo and the interior regions of the states of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. The letter was released against the backdrop of the \u201cextremely strong\u201d indications of climate change\u2014likely to provoke weather events that are increasingly extreme\u2014and the fact that Brazil\u2019s water producing systems do not have the capacity to ensure the rates of flow necessary to meet demand. The scientists recommend a drastic reduction in water consumption for 2015, and immediate investments in long-term measures and basic sanitation and sewage treatment projects. They also advocate actions to publicize and raise public awareness of the emergency measures, long-term plans, and seriousness of the crisis. The full text of the letter is available on the ABC website (www.abc.org.br<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Document brings recommendations for dealing with the water crisis","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[217,224,200,265],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-165934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","tag-climate","tag-ecology","tag-environment","tag-urbanism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165934"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=165934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}