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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rapid urban development of the Rio Bogotá basin began around 1950 and led to deteriorated water quality, devastated wetlands, and unsafe low-income neighborhoods in areas prone to flooding. By 2009, ...