{"id":17787,"date":"2024-04-10T12:53:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T12:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/10\/colombias-capital-to-ration-water-as-el-nino-adds-to-drought\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T12:53:21","slug":"colombias-capital-to-ration-water-as-el-nino-adds-to-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/10\/colombias-capital-to-ration-water-as-el-nino-adds-to-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia\u2019s capital\u00a0to ration water as El Ni\u00f1o adds to drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Colombia\u2019s capital, Bogot\u00e1, will begin rationing water this week as several of its reservoirs face unprecedented lows amid a drought made worse by the El Ni\u00f1o climate pattern.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Speaking to the media on Monday,\u00a0Bogot\u00e1\u00a0Mayor Carlos Fernando Gal\u00e1n said reservoirs\u00a0had reached \u201chistorically low\u201d levels and been worsened by El Ni\u00f1o, which causes high temperatures and impedes precipitation.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Starting Thursday morning,\u00a0restrictions or rationing measures will be put in place for Bogot\u00e1 residents\u00a0and dozens of towns and municipalities surrounding the capital, according to a handout on the\u00a0city\u2019s official website. The measures will affect around 9 million people.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The country and region have experienced long periods without rain since June 2023 due to El Ni\u00f1o, the city wrote on its\u00a0official website.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Colombian President Gustavo Petro issued a natural disaster\u00a0decree\u00a0in January, allowing the government to access more resources\u00a0to combat El Ni\u00f1o\u2019s devastating effects, including wildfires and water stress.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The plan will see nine different zones take turns rationing water services. Each zone\u2019s water restrictions will begin at 8 a.m. local time and last 24 hours before shifting to the next zone in line.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Hospitals and schools will have contingency plans, Gal\u00e1n said on\u00a0X, ensuring they won\u2019t lack water.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cThe critical levels of the reservoirs from which we draw drinking water for\u00a0Bogot\u00e1\u00a0lead us to take measures aimed at saving water and reducing consumption from 17 cubic meters per second to 15,\u201d Gal\u00e1n\u2019s post read.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cThis must be the beginning of a behavioral change that is sustainable over time and guarantees that water is enough for everyone,\u201d he continued.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Colombia joins Mexico, whose own capital, Mexico City, has also been experiencing a severe water crisis due to years of abnormally low rainfall, longer dry periods and high temperatures.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombia\u2019s capital, Bogot\u00e1, will begin rationing water this week as several of its reservoirs face unprecedented lows amid a drought made worse by the El Ni\u00f1o climate pattern. Speaking to the media on Monday,\u00a0Bogot\u00e1\u00a0Mayor Carlos Fernando Gal\u00e1n said reservoirs\u00a0had reached \u201chistorically low\u201d levels and been worsened by El Ni\u00f1o, which causes high temperatures and impedes <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}