TY  - JOUR
A1  - Arguello de Souza, Felipe Augusto
A1  - Samprogna Mohor, Guilherme
A1  - Guzman Arias, Diego Alejandro
A1  - Sarmento Buarque, Ana Carolina
A1  - Taffarello, Denise
A1  - Mendiondo, Eduardo Mario
T1  - Droughts in São Paulo
T2  - Urban water journal
N2  - Literature has suggested that droughts and societies are mutually shaped and, therefore, both require a better understanding of their coevolution on risk reduction and water adaptation. Although the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region drew attention because of the 2013-2015 drought, this was not the first event. This paper revisits this event and the 1985-1986 drought to compare the evolution of drought risk management aspects. Documents and hydrological records are analyzed to evaluate the hazard intensity, preparedness, exposure, vulnerability, responses, and mitigation aspects of both events. Although the hazard intensity and exposure of the latter event were larger than the former one, the policy implementation delay and the dependency of service areas in a single reservoir exposed the region to higher vulnerability. In addition to the structural and non-structural tools implemented just after the events, this work raises the possibility of rainwater reuse for reducing the stress in reservoirs.
KW  - droughts
KW  - urban water supply
KW  - water crisis
KW  - drought risk
KW  - paired event
KW  - analysis
KW  - vulnerability
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62997
SN  - 1573-062X
SN  - 1744-9006
VL  - 20
IS  - 10
SP  - 1682
EP  - 1694
PB  - Taylor & Francis
CY  - London [u.a.]
ER  -