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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOSQUERA, Colombia - Photos from a Columbian city near Bogota show how a foul-smelling, massive layer of toxic foam is plaguing residents as it breaks apart into cloud-like fragments and drifts ...

This week, Israel’s Kishon River Authority hosted a delegation from La Corporación Autónoma Regional (CAR) of the Cundinamarca region of Colombia, which is responsible for managing natural resources ...

A United Nations letter to Colombia warns that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in the Atrato River basin is ...