内容摘要：Evans, the planner in Kansas City, said road diets can’t stop all reckless drivers.

Evans, the planner in Kansas City, said road diets can’t stop all reckless drivers.

“We had to travel upriver by boat for two hours to fetch sweet water. And sometimes it tasted salty even going that far.” Elinho told The Associated Press in his home in Macapa city, where he has lived since August with his wife, Sabrina Fernandes, 25, and their three sons.The river and the sea push back and forth against each other with different strengths according to the season. During a full moon, the sea invades the river with such strength that, in some places, it turns into a single giant wave of up to 4 meters (13 feet), a phenomenon known as pororoca. The advance of seawater typically occurs in Bailique during the dry season when the Amazon River’s flow diminishes.

Last year, the seawater pushed upriver for longer, around five months. The water tasted saltier and for the first time in several decades, it reached the whole archipelago, eight islands, where about 14,000 people live spread across 58 villages.“I had never seen it like this before. Not even my parents did it,” said Elinho, who, living now in Macapa, is away from the islands for the first time in his life.Macapa authorities declared a state of emergency in October 2021. But help was scant, Fernandes and other residents say. Her family of four (her third child was born this year) received only 9 liters (2.3 gallons) of mineral water every two months. Even reserving it for drinking, it lasted only a few days.

There is no piped water in the islands. With their drinking water — the river — salty, many Bailique residents had no choice but to use salty water to wash clothes, bathe, cook and brush their teeth, an unpleasant and unhealthy situation.“We avoided cleaning our faces. The skin gets dry. We used soap, but it makes no foam. When we woke up, our skin was white. For my sons and many other people, it caused itching and they had to use an ointment,” Fernandes recalls.

Children play in a stream in front of a water tank to collect rainwater for consumption in the Elozay community, of the Bailique Archipelago, district of Macapa, state of Amapa, northern Brazil, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Children play in a stream in front of a water tank to collect rainwater for consumption in the Elozay community, of the Bailique Archipelago, district of Macapa, state of Amapa, northern Brazil, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)in February 2020 of four counts of capital murder, four counts of murder, two counts of kidnapping, one count of attempted murder and one count of armed robbery.

A jury sentenced Godbolt to death for each of the capital murders. For the other convictions, Godbolt was sentenced to six life sentences and two 20-year terms.Godbolt, now 42, is on

at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed his convictions and death sentences in March 2024.