A Manizales water plant said Thursday that rains are preventing repairs, leaving the central Colombian city without receiving water for the ninth straight day. The Civil Defense director announced that…
The comptroller of Manizales launched a preliminary investigation into the nearly week-long water shortage as the city completes its sixth day without water, newspaper El Espectador reported Tuesday. Manizales Comptroller…
A landslide in central Colombia destroyed the main water supply pipeline of the capital city of the Caldas department, leaving 360,000 residents without water service, Colombian media reported Thursday. The…
In a time when Colombians are sick and tired of water because of the incessant torrential rains that have hit the country since last year, in a time during Colombia’s…
Four unsupervised children drowned while swimming in a pool of water in the Susa municipality of central Colombia’s Cundinamarca department. The four children drowned in what firemen described as a…
As part of World Water Day, Colombia’s National Health Institute revealed that half of the country’s departments register contaminated drinking water, Caracol Radio reported Tuesday. The report shows that only…
Simón Zimmer was born in Bogota, Colombia, but was adopted by a German family who lived in Columbia, Maryland, in the U.S. “To be honest,” Zimmer told Colombia Reports, “I…
Cartagena, Colombia’s main tourism destination on the Caribbean coast, will host two maritime festivals on May 19; the International Maritime Exhibition and Sail Cartagena 2010, local newspaper El Universal reported…
Colombian warnings increase over possible water shortages through April 2010 together with the fear of forest fires as El Niño phenomenon provokes ongoing drought. El Espectador reported that Colombia has…