Rainwater harvesting and eco-gardens: how one Colombian neighbourhood helped a whole city plan for climate change
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- abril 17, 2026
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From rainwater harvesting to tree nurseries, communities in Medellín are taking steps to increase their landslide and flooding resilience
In his home on a steep hillside in the neighbourhood of Golondrinas in Medellín, Róbinson Velásquez Cartagena stands proudly next to two large tanks of water – a rainwater harvesting system he designed and built to help reduce the risk of flooding and landslides.
It is one of the nature-based solutions that Velásquez and others in the community have proposed as part of a disaster risk and climate crisis adaptation plan for Comuna 8, a growing informal settlement of 150,000 people in Colombia’s second-largest city.
