The water crisis in Rio de Janeiro remains unsolved

Cedae (State Water and Sewage Company) leaves 67 neighborhoods in the city of Rio Janeiro and 6 other cities in the state without water.

The Guandu Treatment Station, one of the largest in the country, stopped its activities for 14 hours due to the presence of detergent in the spring.

In total, there is no water supply in 67 neighborhoods in the capital and in six municipalities in the Baixada Fluminense, where 7 million people live.
For the sanitation specialist Renato Falcão Dantas, "the trend is getting worse", in a report published by O Globo.

In several parts of the city of Rio de Janeiro and Baixada Fluminense there is a lack of mineral water in supermarkets. Residents have been consuming mineral water for three weeks so as not to consume the muddy and fetid water that is coming out of the taps.

According to technicians, the water that is coming out of the taps is contaminated by geosmin, an organic compound formed by carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, and produced naturally by algae.