Rainwater Harvesting and Eco-Gardens: How One District in Colombia Contributed to City-wide Climate Change Planning

Rainwater Harvesting and Eco-Gardens: How One District in Colombia Contributed to City-wide Climate Change Planning

IIn his home on a steep hillside in Medellin’s Golondrinas neighborhood, Robinson Velázquez Cartagena stands proudly next to two large water tanks, a rainwater harvesting system he designed and built to reduce the risk of flooding and landslides. This is one of the nature-based solutions that Velázquez and others in the community have proposed as … Read more