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A comprehensive sector policy, introduced in 1994, aimed at increasing water and sanitation investments through targeted transfers to municipalities, improving service quality and efficiency by promoting private sector participation in the poorest parts of the country where utilities were not performing well, the establishment of autonomous regulatory agencies at the national level, increased ...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Luis Soler is caring for water as if it were the most expensive ingredient at his restaurant in Colombia’s capital. For the first time in 40 years, a severe drought pushed the city to start rationing tap water. At Soler’s restaurant in Bogota, nothing flowed through the pipes Friday.
The water resources management legal framework consists of the following laws and regulations, presented in chronological order: Decree 2811 of 1974: Also known as the Natural Resources Code, establish on its Article 134 “it is responsibility of the State to guarantee water quality for human and other users.”
Colombia's capital Bogota will start rationing water this week to alleviate droughts wrought by the El Nino weather pattern, which has exacerbated the Andean country's dry season and caused ...
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The political unrest in Colombia catalyzes the alteration of land patterns through the cultivation of coca and opium crops, the redirection of extractive activities, and land abandonment in some areas. [1] Contaminated water after the gold extraction process. Trash in the bay of Cartagena, Colombia (2005). Pollution on the streets of Barranquilla.
In Cartagena water supply coverage jumped from 74 percent to almost universal coverage, while sewer coverage went up from 62 percent to 79 percent (1996–2006). Cartagena achieved full water supply coverage despite a 50 percent jump in the size of its population during the same period, largely due to the arrival of poor rural migrants.
The Colombian government said the ship will be brought above water before President Gustavo Petro ends his term of office in 2026. The San Jose was discovered by a team of navy divers in 2015 ...