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02-21-2017, 01:40 PM
http://cdmagurus.com/cron.php?rand=1487698817 (https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazils-race-save-drought-hit-slideshow-wp-163624908.html)The shrunken carcasses of cows lie in scorched fields outside the city of Campina Grande in northeast Brazil, and hungry goats search for food on the cracked-earth floor of the Boqueirao reservoir that serves the desperate town. After five years of drought, farmer Edivaldo Brito says he cannot remember when the Boqueirão reservoir was last full. Brazil’s arid northeast is weathering its worst drought on record and Campina Grande, which has 400,000 residents that depend on the reservoir, is running out of water.



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