El Niño in Colombia: what’s happening and what will happen
Nine of Colombia’s 32 provinces are in a state of emergency due to extreme drought, high temperatures and forest fires caused by El Niño that threatens to continue disrupting weather until…
Nine of Colombia’s 32 provinces are in a state of emergency due to extreme drought, high temperatures and forest fires caused by El Niño that threatens to continue disrupting weather until…
While suffering a record-breaking drought, Colombia’s government revealed Monday that 43% of drinking water is wasted in the South American country.
Nearly half of Colombia, 463 out of its 1,102 municipalities, currently face threat of water shortages and wildfires, according to the country’s meteorological institute IDEAM.
Colombia’s government has reserved $4.2 million (COP13 billion) to fight forest fires and drought that have hit the country as a consequence of the “El Niño” weather phenomenon.
A fire in western central Colombia which broke out on Thursday consumed 46 houses and left over 186 devastated families without their possessions.
Colombia is suffering the worst drought and forest fires in the country’s history because of weather phenomenon El Niño. According to meteorologists, the situation is likely to get worse.
In the northern Colombian region of La Guajira — where 83.7% of the population live without clean water and 9 out of 10 in poverty — aid measures are underway to…
According to the national government, Colombian authorities are ready to cope with a possible drought as a consequence of weather phenomenon El Niño, but warned that citizens should cooperate by saving as…
Colombian academics and scientists have been teaming up with small communities to carry out successful potable water projects, in stark contrast to past and current state failures to improve the country’s water infrastructure.