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Alarm Bells Toll For Human Civilization As World's 12th Largest Mega-City To Run Out Of Water In Just 60 Days

Alarm Bells Toll For Human Civilization As World's 12th Largest Mega-City To Run Out Of Water In Just 60 Days | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

The city of Sao Paulo is home to 20 million Brazilians, making it the 12th largest mega-city on a planet dominated by shortsighted humans. Shockingly, it has only 60 days of water supply remaining. The city "has about two months of guaranteed water supply remaining as it taps into the second of three emergency reserves," reports Reuters. - See more at: http://upriser.com/posts/alarm-bells-toll-for-human-civilization-as-world-s-12th-largest-mega-city-to-run-out-of-water-in-just-60-days#sthash.NoZG7Ee1.dpuf

Julie Nordskog Andrews's curator insight, May 20, 2015 11:19 AM

What do you do when one of the world's largest cities runs out of water?

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Polisdigitocracy

Polisdigitocracy | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The digital revolution is allowing democracy to recall its foundations and evolution is modernizing and reinforcing our fundamental values. And we are only at the beginning of that journey.
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Human Ecosystems in Sao Paulo: the Real-Time Museum of the City

Human Ecosystems in Sao Paulo: the Real-Time Museum of the City | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

From September 23rd to 28th, as a parallel program of the International Meeting on Culture and New Technologies, the SESC Vila Mariana will hosts the Human Ecosystems project, by the Italian artists Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico (Art is Open Source).

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Hackathons And How To Find A Parking Spot In Rio De Janeiro With Team Rua ... - TechCrunch

Hackathons And How To Find A Parking Spot In Rio De Janeiro With Team Rua ... - TechCrunch | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

I’m sitting in an office on the 13th floor of Mayor Eduardo Paes’s headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. I’ve come to speak with Pedro Paulo, the Staff Secretary who presided over Rio’s first city-sponsored hackathon, an overnight Red Bull and hot-dog infused tech fest that opened up a cache of city data to 75 Rio citizens eager to make their city better with apps.

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