Deforestation inBrazil's cerrado threatens watersecuritycountrywide

"A few years ago, the waters of our river would only really lower in late August and early September. But not now. The rain stopped, and eight days later the level's already down because there's nothing left to sustain the water. The marshes have reduced their flow because the cerrado has been deforested right at the headwaters. There's no cerrado left." The complaint is reminiscent of a lament and comes from 61-year-o