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World Water Day, held on 22 March every year, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater.
Politics, turmoil and hope… In 2024, Latin America continued facing chronic issues of deforestation, ecosystem contamination, violence, habitat loss and political turmoil. Changes brought on by ...
In Bogota’s Teusaquillo district, Colombia, a hotel was discovered stealing drinking water: Acueducto reports more cases in 2024. According to the authorities, water theft has occurred in places...
In Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, water is scarce due to the lack of rainfall. ‘Disincentives’ have been introduced to encourage water saving. Now, the Bogotá Water and Sewerage Company ...
Obsolete distribution networks and irregular connections lead to losses of up to 70% of drinking water in municipalities of the city of Córdoba in northern Colombia, affecting the continuity of servic...
The regulations of the Commission for the Regulation of Drinking Water and Basic Sanitation (CRA) will establish strict limits to protect a resource that is in crisis. Infobae has the details on the n...
In Colombia, climate change, coupled with deforestation in the Amazon and El Niño weather patterns that have become more intense, has caused a punishing and prolonged drought. The San Rafael reservoir...
Colombia’s Minister of Housing, Cities and Territories, Helga Rivas Ardila, the Deputy Minister of Water, Edward Libreros, and members of the sector team announced that, for the first time in th...
Weak controls, weak regulations and corporate lobbying combine to allow companies producing the ultra-processed food (UPF) in the region’s four largest economies to consume large amounts of wat...
New publication: “Perpetual planning: Expertise, uncertainty, and the politics of delay in Colombia’s Guayuriba river-basin” by Parisa Nourani Rinaldi, María Cecilia Roa-García, and ...
Join in for World Water Day 2025
World Water Day, held on 22 March every year, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater.