09-01-2015 15:17 via news.yahoo.com

Brazil water supply, crops still at risk a year after epic drought

By Anna Flávia Rochas and Roberto Samora SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Southeastern Brazil is getting some rainfall a year after a record drought started, but not enough to eliminate worries about an energy crisis, water shortages or another season of damaged export crops, meteorologists said. Record-high temperatures and the most severe drought in at least 80 years punished southeastern Brazil last year, a region accounting for 60 percent of the country's gross domestic product. Despite rain in r
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