US EditionColombia’s capital ends drought-related water rationing. Its case is a warning to other cities
- Bogota's mayor, Carlos Fernando Galan, announced the end to water rationing on Friday, after a year of restrictions.
- Low reservoir levels, exacerbated by drought conditions and climate change, prompted the city to implement water cuts.
- Eight million Bogota residents and people in eleven municipalities faced 24-hour water cuts every nine days.
- Andres Torres stated the cuts exposed poor resource management; Galan encouraged residents to shower together.
- Improved rainfall, conservation, and a treatment plant expansion resolved the crisis and eased reservoir demand.
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One year later, rotating cuts in drinking water per neighbourhoods of the capital of eight million inhabitants allowed the consumption of reservoirs damaged by a rainfall deficit in 2023 to be limited. A device that ends this Saturday, April 12.
The mayor of Bogotá announced the end of the daily rationing of drinking water in the Colombian capital, just after one year of the measure.
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Colombia's capital ends drought-related water rationing. Its case is a warning to other cities
Colombia’s capital has always seemed immune to water scarcity, nestled among cloud-kissed Andean peaks and known for steady rainfall.
Bogotá puts an end to the rationing of water, after a year of restrictions in service due to the fall to historically low levels of reservoirs that supply the capital of Colombia. “Thanks to the commitment of the whole city, the most serious water crisis in the history of Bogotá has ended,” announced first thing this Friday Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán. “From Saturday the rationing rises permanently,” he explained.
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