Central government help on its way to draught city

Scorched fields outside the city of Campina Grande in northeast Brazil, as the Boqueirao reservoir, dried up. The local farmers, serving over 400, 000 residents have lost everything bananas, beans, potatoes. The reservoir is down to 4  per cent of capacity and rainfall is expected to be sparse this year.

After decades of empty promises, the government finally is rerouting Brazil’s longest river, the Sao Francisco will soon relieve Campina Grande. Water will be pumped over hills and through 400 kilometres of canals into dry river basins in Ceara, the Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco and Paraiba the small state in which Campina Grande is the second-biggest city.