Extreme weather due to the El Niño weather phenomenon have increasingly been causing water shortages across Colombia and have now hit two of the country’s most important cities, Cali and Medellin.
In a gesture of transparency, Colombia’s government has created a webpage called MAPAregalias to track the $6.4 billion dollars in mining royalties used to finance development projects.
Approximately 400 people are already suffering from bacterial infections, in a town in Colombia’s west, because of a contaminated water supply, local media reported Wednesday.
Between forest fires and a protracted drought, some 112,000 acres of land have been destroyed in Colombia’s eastern plains during the last five months, reported national media.
Two new wells opened in the northern deserts of Colombia on Monday, but scattered indigenous communities say they have no means of accessing the new water sources.
The mayor of one of Colombia’s biggest tourist towns, Santa Marta, has declared a state of emergency because of an ongoing drought crisis, local media reported on Thursday morning.
A small protest in a neighborhood of Colombia’s Pacific coast city Buenaventura turned violent Tuesday night after residents went four days without access to tap water.
Colombia’s Pacific port city Buenaventura called an orange alert Tuesday after heavy rainfall since the end of September. The drinking water supply of the city has been seriously disrupted by…
A landslide on Sunday damaged an aqueduct in central Colombia, leaving 12,000 people without water. Heavy rains in the central Tolima department triggered the landslide which badly damaged the…