Noticias sobre Colombia
Empowering water efficiency: WEG’s Motion Drives in large-scale water treatment projects
The water sector faces enduring challenges in pursuing efficient and sustainable solutions.
Only 36 per cent of appeals for water- and sanitation-related funding met in 2023
In advance of World Water Day, Action Against Hunger calls for support to close the water funding gap.
How does a river breathe? The answer could lead to a better understanding of global carbon cycle
Take a deep breath.
Aqualia appoints Santiago Lafuente as new CEO
Aqualia's Board of Directors has appointed Santiago Lafuente, current director for Spain, as the company's new CEO.
Climate change main driver of exceptional drought in Amazon River
Since mid 2023 the Amazon River Basin (ARB) has been in a state of exceptional drought, driven by low rainfall and consistently high temperatures for the entire year 2023 across the basin.
EPM joins a global network specialized in technological innovation in water management
This is the Global Technology Approval Group (TAG) of Isle Utilities, a forum that fosters innovation and technological adoption in the water sector around the world EPM is the…
Global momentum for climate action surges as 38 nations embrace the Freshwater Challenge
The Freshwater Challenge aims to ensure 300,000km of degraded rivers and 350 million hectares of degraded wetlands are committed to restoration by 2030, and to protect freshwater ecosystems.
Climate change’s impact on coastal flooding to increase 5-times over this century, says UNDP
Latin America, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are at the forefront, projected to lose significant land and critical infrastructure to permanent inundation.
Drought data shows “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale”
UNCCD launches ‘Global Drought Snapshot’ report at COP28 in collaboration with International Drought Resilience Alliance (IDRA).
“A mindset shift is required to see cyber risks as operational risks rather than just IT problems”
Digitalisation of water infrastructure improves efficiency, but also increases exposure to cyber risks.
Researchers offer new method to analyze implications of large-scale flood adaptation
During the summer of 2022, the Indus River in Pakistan overflowed its banks and swept through the homes of between 30-40 million people.
Brazilian researchers develop method of purifying water contaminated by glyphosate
By José Tadeu Arantes | Agência FAPESP.
FAO broadens scope of innovative water monitoring tool to include the whole world
Open-access WaPOR system uses geospatial data to track actual crop water consumption down to the field level.
WEG provides solutions for the Canoas Wastewater Mega Station in Colombia
The wastewater pumping station will allow the future Canoas WWTP to treat 70% of Bogotá's wastewater.
Down the drain lies a promising climate and nature solution – UN report
Wastewater is a growing health and environmental threat, accounting for almost as much planet-warming emissions as the aviation industry.
“Halfway into the SDG period we are failing the most vulnerable in terms of water security”
The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) recently published the world's first-ever "Global Water Security Assessment", highlighting significant development challenges.
Socio-environmental vulnerability index pinpoints sustainability issues in Brazilian river basin
By Luciana Constantino | Agência FAPESP
Panama is the first Latin American country to join UN Water Convention
By becoming the first country from Latin America to accede to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention), Panama made a decisive step to support the sustainable use of transboundary water resources through cooperation across borders.
Clearcut logging leads to more frequent flooding, including extreme floods
Study also shows that larger, intact watersheds reduce flood risk more effectively.
Aqualia wins water management contract in Riohacha, Colombia
The contract, under which it will provide service to a population of 196,000 inhabitants for 30 years, provides the company with a portfolio of 293 million euros and becomes Aqualia's largest operation in Colombia.