Water rationing is rare in Bogotá, a city that is located in a humid patch of the northern Andes Mountains and is surrounded by cloud forests and emerald green fields.
British supermarkets have taken to rationing vegetables after bad weather hit growing conditions in Spain, leading to a shortage in supplies that is set to continue through to March.
Roughly 250m now own smartphones but even those with expensive devices often save money by rationing data use or turning connections off.
Nappy rationing, now in force for more than a year, sits strangely in a country with one of the lowest birth-rates in the world.
