{"id":3586,"date":"2026-06-26T09:37:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:38:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:38:01","slug":"worsening-municipal-sewage-pollution-in-the-wapes-river-colombian-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/worsening-municipal-sewage-pollution-in-the-wapes-river-colombian-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Worsening Municipal Sewage Pollution in the Wap\u00e9s River, Colombian Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sewage treatment facilities in upstream towns have frequently collapsed due to their low-lying locations, resulting in massive amounts of untreated domestic sewage and municipal waste being discharged directly into the main Wap\u00e9s River, where levels of E. coli and organic pollutants have exceeded all standards. Downstream, the Makakini\u00f1o Indigenous people rely on the river for fishing, hunting, and water collection. Recently, there has been a sharp increase in cases of gastrointestinal and skin diseases, and the population of native freshwater fish in the river has plummeted. Domestic pollution resulting from uncontrolled urban expansion is emerging as a new source of contamination in the rainforest\u2019s inland water systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sewage treatment facilities in upstream towns have frequently collapsed due to their low-lying locations, resulting in massive amounts of untreated domestic sewage and municipal waste being discharged directly into the main Wap\u00e9s River, where levels of E. coli and organic pollutants have exceeded all standards. Downstream, the Makakini\u00f1o Indigenous people rely on the river for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-survival"],"views":39,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3588,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions\/3588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}