Pursuits
Tale of Two Carwashes Shows Brazil Poor Hurt in Drought: Cities
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There are days when Izilda Aparecida is lucky to get a drink out of the tap. Running a carwash? She had to shutter her small business this month until her water service returned.
On the other side of metropolitan Sao Paulo, in the Itaim financial district of South America’s biggest city, Luiz Antonio Navarro has no shortage of Audis and other luxury cars lining up for a cleaning and polish.