
Uncovering the Truth: The Looming Flood Disaster in Brazil’s Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre: A City Submerged The Impact of Torrential Rains and Aging Flood Defenses Porto Alegre, the Brazilian metropolis left submerged after torrential rains, had been lulled into a “false sense” of security by a vast but aging system of flood defenses, an urban drainage engineer told AFP. Leomar Teichmann said a network of dikes,…