Hotel beach at Copacabana
Another pool in the courtyard of the Sofitel Rio Palace. Rio de Janeiro has barely adequate water and water treatment facilities for a city a quarter the size it is presently (roughly 12 million people, six million in functional housing and six million otherwise), so visitors are advised to stay away from the famed beaches unless they've taken the proper innoculations. 8th International Conference in Nursing Informatics, Rio de Janeiro, June 2003 20030619 1/640 sec at f / 2.7 Canon PowerShot S300 © Kathleen G. Charters