Almost 10 million people will suffer water cuts in Colombia due to drought

Almost 10 million inhabitants of Bogotá and some surrounding municipalities will suffer water rationing from Thursday due to the low level of reservoirs due to the dryauthorities in the Colombian capital announced on Monday.

We have to “take restrictive measures to ensure that drinking water Bogotá do not run out and be enough for everyone“, reported the mayor of Bogotá, Carlos Fernando Galánfor the media.

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As a consequence mainly of the climatological phenomenon of The boythree of the reservoirs that supply the city and nearby municipalities are at low levels, he explained Prince.

In Bogotáwhere eight live millions in peoplecuts will be made by sectors for 24 hours.

Within two weeks the authorities will analyze whether it is necessary extend rationingas the goal is to reduce water consumption in homes by 11%.

Ten municipalities surrounding the capital in the department of Cundinamarca They will have the same measurement.

In January, drought caused hundreds of forest fires in Colombia which consumed around 17,100 hectares of forest.

In the capital, the emblematic hills of the city’s east burned for several days.

“Climate change is a reality that we can’t ignore”, concluded Galán.

Source: Elcomercio

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