At a waste-water treatment plant on the northwest edge of Bogota, Mireya Avila Teuta watches eight screens alternating between rainbow-colored thermal images. In an upper right screen, the ...

Civil society says the bill would transform Colombia’s landmark river rights decisions into a national legal framework for ...

One of the main structures for the decontamination of the Bogotá River, which must treat 70% of its waters, is the Canoas Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). For this to work properly, construction ...

Bogota has declared a state of emergency after heavy rains caused flooding on Wednesday, leaving 10,000 people homeless in the southwest of the city, according to newspaper El Tiempo. The river’s ...

WASHINGTON, December 14, 2010 — The World Bank Board of Executive Directors (WB) approved a US$250 million loan today for the Rio Bogota Environmental Recuperation and Flood Control Project, with the ...

Flooding of the Bogota river is again causing emergency situations north of the capital, local aid agencies said Friday. The chairman of the Cundinamarca department’s Disaster Attention and Prevention ...

How the Colombian capital Bogotá defied the World Bank and the multinationals, refused to privatise and turned its water services into the best in the country Residents of the more low-lying areas of ...