Source: O POVO

Topic: Improvising as water crisis looms

São Paulo residents are already preparing to confront a “drastic rotation” [of water pressure] as Paulo Massato, metropolitan director of Sabesp, described it last week. Under this regime, residents will go five consecutive days without pressure and only two with the pressure on.

Though the model for the rotation has not yet been defined, many local residents are buying [various types of rainwater capture and storage systems].The state government foresees the beginning of April as a start date for the rotation scheme, after the rainy seasons cease and the dead volume of the Cantareira System, which is operating at 5.1% of its capacity and supplies 6.2 million persons — the worst in the history of the metro area — is reached.

University professor Claudio Couto, a resident of Vila São Francisco in the western zone of the city, the rotation system…