Quality of water in the Rionegro area?

This July 2020 article indicates that Rionegro's water quality has improved and is good:

https://mioriente.com/altiplano/rionegr … dad-2.html

Rionegro is not listed as among the municipalities having water problems in Antioquia, in this article:

https://www.eltiempo.com/salud/como-es- … bia-340578

You can click on the interactive map of Colombia in the article, on each departamento, and you will see municipios listed in two categories:  Those considered to have water at risk, agua en riesgo, and those with unviable water, agua inviable, water not considered safe for human consumption.  Rionegro is not on either list.

My concept on water is ... if you can afford bottled water, use it and not tap water for all drinking needs, in South America or even the USA.

Yesterday, a USA resident friend of mine ordered a package of 24 bottles, 17 ounce size, of Kroger-brand purified drinking water for $2.50 total,  or under eleven cents a bottle*.  This was part of a much larger supermarket order so the delivery charge also worked out to pennies per item.

This method takes the uncertainties of tap water out of the equation and eliminates the need for the purchaser to personally transport water from store to residence.

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Another method is to boil tap water and, after it cools, bottle it and drink as needed.

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One can pay less per liter or gallon by ordering larger bottles.  That way saves some pennies although it means dealing with heavy bottles.

Jchayes53 wrote:

I live in Envigado at this time but looking to purchase a house soon. Been looking in the Rionegro area and was told ... water quality was poor. Does anyone have information on this?

With bottled water just pennies per bottle, drinking-water quality should not be an impediment to buying property in Rionegro or elsewhere in Colombia.  (However, if you can document low-quality water in a given community, it might be a bargaining chip when negotiating price.)

IMO water quality is much less important than these issues if considering buying property in Colombia...

1.  I would not buy property in a volatile country in the covid era.

2.  Unless married to a Colombian, an Expat may be required to pay 80 percent or more of purchase price upfront, which is, as a rule, a bad idea when buying property.  We can discuss why this is a bad idea, if you wish.

3.  The value of the dollar against the peso or COP has been high in recent years.  So buyers today may think they are getting a bargain.  However, nobody knows which way currency values will swing when covid- and other conditions change .. and that means one would be gambling on the value of their property.  This could impact the ability to re-sell a home in a few years, depending.

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I've lived in the rionegro area for over 13 years and never had any problems with the water.  In the heavy rainy season though they use a huge amount of chlorine.  We have an activated charcoal water filter we use to filter our drinking and cooking water.

Water quality is not an issue in most of Antioquia, Eje Cafetero, Santander and even Bogota, Cali. Water fed by the Paramos and bosque nube.

The coast is a different case