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Judi Lynn

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Mon Jun 9, 2014, 04:28 PM Jun 2014

River pollution could cost Colombia govt $11.1B to clean up: environment minister

River pollution could cost Colombia govt $11.1B to clean up: environment minister
Jun 5, 2014 posted by Tim Hinchliffe

Colombia’s rivers could cost the government $11.1 billion to clean up, the country’s Environment Minister said on Thursday.

Colombia’s Environment Minister Luz Helena Sarmiento warned that the government would have to spend 3.5% of the nation’s $369.9 billion gross domestic product (GDP) in order to clean Colombia’s waterways, Colombia’s El Espectador newspaper reported on Thursday.

Sarmiento, speaking at the inauguration of the fourth International Fair for the Environment (FIMA) in Bogota, went on to say that the government would have to invest five times the cost of Colombia’s “100,000 free homes” project for the poor if they wanted to clean the contaminated river water.

In the past 18 months, the Colombian government has invested more than $790 million to improve the Bogota River according to Colombia’s El Espectador newspaper.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/river-pollution-cost-colombia-govt-11-1b-clean/

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