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08 June 2017
Brazil: Floods in Pernambuco and Alagoas
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In the last week of May, heavy rainfall and flooding were registered across the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas in northern Brazil. In Pernambuco, 24 out of 185 municipalities have declared state of emergency: 55,000 have been displaced and up to 2.2 million temporarily affected by damage to WASH infrastructure. In Alagoas, the highest estimates are of 16,000 people displaced and 27 out of 102 municipalities in state of emergency.