World leaders to debate water security at Horasis Global Summit in Colombia
On 9 April 2024, the Chingaza water supply system was holding 16.78% of its capacity. Two days later, Bogotá began turning off the taps. The cuts ran in nine rotating shifts, neighborhood by neighborhood, across the capital and eleven municipalities in Cundinamarca. They lasted a year. Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán lifted them at 8:00 am […] The post World leaders to debate water security at…
On April 9, 2024, the Chingaza water supply system in Colombia held only 16.78% of its capacity, prompting Bogotá to begin rotating water cuts across the capital and eleven neighboring municipalities. These cuts endured for a year before Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán lifted them on April 12, 2025. Colombia boasts approximately 2,145 billion cubic meters of renewable internal freshwater, placing it around sixth globally, according to World Bank data from the FAO's AQUASTAT database.
However, water security issues loomed large at the Horasis Global Summit, scheduled from November 10 to 12 at Universidad de Medellín. The summit aims to explore water security on a global scale, with Horasis predicting over 1,000 business leaders, government officials, innovators, and academics to attend under the theme "Building Tomorrow."
Horasis emphasizes that "thriving futures depend on treating water as strategic infrastructure rather than an unlimited resource."
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