Currently, there is an exhibition in the central mall of Liberty Square about the customs and economy of the Saint Francis Valley region. It’s called ‘Alameda San Francisco: the river floods the city’. Ironically, the river which crosses half of the country from Minas Gerais state till the Northeast, goes through a critical phase with many of its tributaries drying having a decreased flow. This panel shows one of man’s activities in the region: the transport of goods on carts pulled by oxen. Would the empty cart be a reflection of the bad moment of the economy?
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Atualmente, há uma exposição na alameda central da Praça da Liberdade sobre os costumes e economia da região do vale do São Francisco. Ela se chama ‘Alameda São Francisco: o rio inunda a cidade’. Ironicamente, o rio que atravessa metade do país de Minas Gerais ao Nordeste, passa por uma fase crítica com muitos de seus afluentes secando e tem sua vazão diminuída. Este painel mostra uma das atividades do homem da região: o transporte de mercadorias em carros puxados por bois. Será que o carro vazio é um reflexo do mau momento da economia?
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I would say it’s open to interpretation.
Your post raises the question of what can we do to safeguard our water resources. Fresh water is becoming a scarcer and scarcer commodity. It will be a scary future without plentiful water.
We have been reducing water consumption for months and were suposed to be in raining season, but up now very little rain.