Water shortages in Colombia hit major cities Cali and Medellin
Extreme weather due to the El Niño weather phenomenon have increasingly been causing water...
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Colombia govt reveals how it spends mining royalties
In a gesture of transparency, Colombia’s government has created a webpage called...
Health emergency on Colombia’s Pacific coast
Approximately 400 people are already suffering from bacterial infections, in a town in...
Drought, fires have destroyed more than 110K acres in eastern Colombia
Between forest fires and a protracted drought, some 112,000 acres of land have been destroyed in...
Colombia builds new wells, but indigenous desert communities have no access: leaders
Two new wells opened in the northern deserts of Colombia on Monday, but scattered indigenous...
Santa Marta declares state of emergency, water restrictions
The mayor of one of Colombia’s biggest tourist towns, Santa Marta, has declared a state of...
Unrest erupts in Colombia’s Pacific port city after residents go 4 days without drinking water
A small protest in a neighborhood of Colombia’s Pacific coast city Buenaventura turned...
Landslide in central Colombia leaves thousands without water
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 aqueduct that provides water to...
Colombia rains keeps Manizales water supply cut off
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 persistent haze in the...
Colombian city goes 6 days without water, comptroller investigates
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...
Landslide leaves 360,000 Colombians without water
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 local government of...
Save the water for a rainy Colombian day
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 worst natural disaster in its history that has affected more...
