Flood Prevention in Rio

de Janeiro

By: Luiza, Hannah, Omar, Ivan, Jorge

Recent Flood in Rio de Janeiro Causes Tragedy

In January of this year, Rio had a horrible flood. Forecasters say that it was one of the worst flood in 4 decades. Firemen and other rescuers are doing the best they can to find everybody and get them medical care. More than hundreds of people died because of this natural disaster!4,000 families are homeless and 10,000 homes are at risk. The forecast says that more rain will come throughout the year.. Lots of people are having diseases such as water born diseases because of the floods.

LET’S HELP!

Government says they’ll give money to help. They do, but it is such a small quantity that it doesn’t make any difference. We need to find solutions to prevent the flood in Rio de Janeiro. Let’s help these people and show them some strategies we came up with!

Causes and Effects I

The rain that reaches Rio de Janeiro has killed more than one hundred people and thousands were left homeless and hurt. Before the disaster, the state governor, Sergio Cabral, and the mayor, Eduardo Paes, asked the federal government for R$ 370,000,000 for emergency repairs such as transportation if a tragedy like this happens and medical care. According to the government, Rio de Janeiro had the highest recorded rainfall in its history, and beat the record set in 1966.

Causes and Effects II (Português)

Durante cada chuva forte que acontece no Rio, o número de mortes aumenta pelo menos para 225. Essas pessoas são mortas por causa de deslizamentos de terra, inundações de ruas e chuva pesada. O pior disso tudo é que as pessoas afetadas nao tem nenhum meio de transportes ou alguma moradia. Muitos moradores pobres fazem protestos contra a diferença entre autoridades de ricos e pobres.

Human Factors

Many people are victims of floods. Many damages that floods causes to people is our fault. Because since the poor people doesn’t have enough money to build a good house in a secure place, they build it in dangerous hills which are most affected because of landslides. Also, there aren’t enough culverts for the water pass, so during the flood it accumulates in streets and start spreading and killing people and entering in houses.

People Killed in Floods

373

437

290

331

894

1966 1967

1988 2010

2011

Science Effects

As it is summer in Brasil, the water of the ocean and rivers get quickly evaporated. That causes to rain more. In the year of 2011 the rain in Rio de Janeiro affected a lot of the weather. Because even though forecasters predict there is coming heavy rain, most people won’t have enough money to get transportation and go to a safe place. Also, rains happens in every season and we can’t all the time go to other places to be safe.

Political Problems

Since the recent tragedy killed more than hundredss of people and left thousands homeless, the president Dilma Rouseff declared that an emergency of R$ 780,000,000 would be needed so than the government will be able to build more than 2,000 houses for the homeless people. The government tries to keep people who don’t have a house away from high risk areas, but they just won’t obey. One problem in that Brasil’s government only give the money after the disaster, and not before to prevent it.

Prevention

As you know we can’t stop the rain so...

First we need to have a way to communicate to people that there’s going to be a heavy rain that will for sure cause floods

For example an speaker in each street with forecasts for the week or the day. So, people will be prepared and go to a safe place.

We also may use the government’s money to build places where people can go when heavy rain is predicted and in that place there’ll be shelter, medical care, food and water.

What the government really needs to get is transportation for everyone and be sure they are safe.

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Works Cited

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12200299.com

http://trin.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/death-toll-from-brazil-flooding-continues-to-rise/

http://news.discovery.com/earth/big-pic-brazil-rainfall-landslides-110113.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadliest_floods

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadliest_floods