Possessing between 12 and 14% of the world’s fresh water. 70% of the water in Brazil is found in the Amazon River. On the south this blue blob in the map this vast underground reservoir could supply fresh drinking water to the world for 200 years.
The Guaraní Aquifer, located beneath the surface of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, is one of the world's largest aquifer systems and is an important source of fresh water.[1] Named after the Guaraní tribe, it covers 1,200,000 km², with a volume of about 40,000 km³, a thickness of between 50 m and 800 m and a maximum depth of about 1,800 m. It is estimated to contain about 37,000 km³ of water (arguably the largest single body of groundwater in the world, although the overall volume of the constituent parts of the Great Artesian Basin is much larger), with a total recharge rate of about 166 km³/year from precipitation.
It is said that this vast underground reservoir could supply fresh drinking water to the world for 200 years. Due to an expected shortage of fresh water on a global scale, which environmentalists suggest will become critical in under 20 years, this important natural resource is rapidly becoming politicized, and the control of the resource becomes ever more controversial.
But that it is not all!
A barrier following the coats line -in the southeast- means rain water runs inland. Instead of runing 50 Km to sea, it travels 3000Km -generating electricity on its way and going to be discharge in the Plata River between Uruguay and Argentina.
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