Brazil Drought 2014-2015

Question 1

Cause of drought in Brazil 2014

Answer 1

Band of high pressure sitting over Brazil for a year, which redirected usual low pressure air back north, creating a year long drought

Question 2

Impacts

Answer 2

Cities had different more ‘important’ needs which caused conflict (Some agri, some energy, some sanitation)

Low coffee bean yield, increasing global price by half

Led to overabstraction of aquifers out of necessity, affecting future water security

River capacities fell by 10%

Exacerbated by overabstraction of surface and groundwater