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Water Fracture is a data-driven storytelling project developed for National Geographic's Freshwater Storytelling Initiative, exposing the human cost of water inequality in Northeastern Brazil.

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💧 38,000 Hospitalizations Exposing Northeastern Brazil's Sanitation Crisis

A National Geographic Freshwater Storytelling Proposal | SDG 6 Initiative

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"In Maranhão, 59.09% of clean water vanishes in distribution - while 38,000 people get hospitalized annually from contaminated sources."


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🔍 Project Overview
📊 Key Data Insights
🛠️ Methodology & Tools
🧑💻 Developers


Project Overview 📖

Objective: Visualize the devastating link between water infrastructure gaps and public health outcomes across Northeastern Brazil's 9 states, supporting National Geographic's Freshwater Storytelling Initiative.

Dataset Highlights:

  • 9 states analyzed
  • 5 critical metrics per state
  • IBGE official statistics
  • DataSUS health data

Key Data Insights 📊

Critical Findings Table

State Water Coverage Treated Sewage Total Hospitalizations Child Cases Water Loss
Bahia 80.55% 48.79% 21,764 6,177 41.66%
Maranhão 56.50% 13.83% 38,000 5,400 59.09%
Piauí 72.84% 18.84% 5,158 1,622 19.36%

Crisis Hotspots

  1. Maranhão's Dual Crisis:

    • Highest hospitalizations (38k)
    • Worst water losses (59.09%)
    • Lowest sewage treatment (13.83%)
  2. Sergipe's Child Emergency:

    • 35% of hospitalizations are children <10 yrs
    • 91.62% water coverage ≠ 38.14% sewage treatment

Methodology & Tools ⚙️

Workflow

graph LR
A[Raw Data] --> B[Databricks Cleaning]
B --> C[Pandas Analysis]
C --> D[Plotly Visualization]
D --> E[Policy Impact Modeling]

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Tools Stack ⚙️

Purpose Tools
Data Processing Python 3.9, Pandas, PySpark
Visualization Plotly, Matplotlib, Seaborn
Environment Databricks Community Edition, Jupyter

Developers :octocat:


Gabrielly Gomes

Vinicius Calisto

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