Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: elmatador who wrote (1668)	10/27/2005 1:12:13 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218070

Drought state of emergency declared in Brazil's Amazon news.yahoo.com Sat Oct 15, 6:17 PM ET Brazil's northern state of Amazonas, mostly covered by the Amazon rainforest, has declared a state of emergency in all its cities except the capital due to the worst drought since 1963, an Amazonas official said. "All the state's cities, except Manaos, where it's raining sporadically, have a problem," the secretary of the state government, Jose Melo, said. The emergency declaration affected 61 cities, he added. "But it is the 1,200 hamlets bordering dry lakes and small rivers where the situation is the most serious: a lack of drinkable water and provisions," the official told local media. The official state of emergency allows the state government to authorize spending without having to first put out public tenders, and obtain government assistance. The federal government already has released 2.2 million dollars to buy medicine and provisions. Amazonas state is the biggest in Brazil, and is covered 92 percent by the Amazon rainforest, home to the world's richest biodiversity. The region bakes in intense heat of about 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) at this time of year. The level of the Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon River, dropped 12 meters (39 feet) between July and October to a depth of almost 16 meters (52 feet), just shy of the level in 1963 during the region's worst drought in the past century.