Dante Ragazzi Pauli, Superintendent of Planning of SABESP, São Paulo’s main water utility, pictured in front of a map in his office in July 2018. Ragazzi assured me that SABESP’s infrastructural projects since the 2013-15 crisis made it impossible for the city to run out of water in 2019, even if very little rain fall. He also suggested that in the city of São Paulo, sanitation and water access would be improved more quickly if the city worked more effectively at formalizing and upgrading favelas. He showed me multiple projections and maps of infrastructural improvements to demonstrate that there would be no major crisis. As I left his office he raised his eyebrows and said, “Let’s hope.” Photo: Daniel Aldana Cohen