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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, December 14, 2010 — The World Bank Board of Executive Directors (WB) approved a US$250 million loan today for the Rio Bogota Environmental Recuperation and Flood Control Project, with the ...