> the green spaces probably don't need irrigation Truly they don't, but even inside Medellin the precipitation rates are not as great as the lands around... .

> the green spaces probably don't need irrigation Truly they don't, but even inside Medellin the precipitation rates are not as great as the lands around... ...because of the deforestation that /already/ happened, say, 50 years ago... Ain't no commercial high rise neighborhood (semi-common in Medellin) that can "pull in" as much precipitation as a virgin forest no way, and you can see this if you visit there and then you visit an actual virgin rain-forest... ...but of course, this is what they are trying to alleviate and if the outskirts of the city are super-green it can help... Btw all of the outskirts aren't super green but a lot of them are...