Bogota: Residents in Bogota, the largest city in Colombia, won a very desirable recovery from a year -long water rationing, in which authorities have announced climate -affected cuts.
Up to 12 months, the capital’s eight million residents have suffered 24 hours of water every nine days, as the city seeks to reduce the low levels of reserves.
Bogota, Andes Nestlé, receives more annual rainfall than London. But the rapidly dizziness of L Nano drought and Amazon’s forest harvesting has taken advantage of them on the reserves.
Mayor Carlos Fernando Galan announced that sanctions would be lifted from Saturday.
“This has been the most complex crisis in terms of water shortage,” he said.
The next day, in the evening to store water for cooking or bathing, the late containers have become a regular feature of Bogota’s life to prepare and rotate the containers.
Braceada Taurus had to fill the buckets and take it for household chores. “Obviously, it’s a problem,” he told AFP.
Benjamin News Fletcher, owner of the car wash, said he had learned to use “rain water and filters … to continue the business.”
These restrictions estimate that it has reduced the average water consumption by more than eight percent – which is up to 16.2 in 17.7 cubic meters per second.
While climate change has worsened the city’s water problems, Anders Toris, director of the Water Institute at Jorina University in Bogota, said the deduction has been similar to the X -rays exposing poor resources management during the years.
“They punished the population because they did not do what their purpose was,” he said.
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