Marcos proposes 10 flood management tasks value P500-B by 2037

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has proposed the implementation of ten flood management tasks from 2024 to 2037.

Within the President’s Report back to the Folks launched Tuesday, Marcos stated these ten tasks would value over P500 billion. These are:

• Built-in Flood Resilience and Adaptation (InFRA) Challenge 2
• Central Luzon-Pampanga River Floodway Challenge
• Parañaque Spillway/Tunnel Challenge
• Ambal-Simuay River and Rio Grande de Mindanao River Flood Management and Riverbank Safety
• Davao Metropolis Flood Management and Drainage Challenge
• Built-in Catastrophe Danger Discount and Local weather Change Adaptation Measures within the LowLying Areas of Pampanga Bay, Stage II
• InFRA 3 Challenge (Aklan, Allah, and Ilog-Hilabangan)
• InFRA 4 Challenge (Agno, Cadac-an, and Magazine-asawang Tubig)
• Flood Management Tasks for Pampanga and Bicol River Basins-Bundle I
• Flood Management Tasks for Panay and Agusan River Basins-Bundle II

READ: Marcos vows to repair flood management system as La Niña looms

Final Could, Marcos promised to repair the nation’s flood management system amid the specter of La Niña.

“However after all, within the long-term, ang talagang solusyon diyan is ‘yung flood management. Aayusin natin ‘yung flood management. Gagawin natin irrigation. Magiipon tayo ng tubig para kapag naabutan tayo ng tagtuyo, kagaya ngayon, ay meron tayo pagkukuhaan ng tubig,” Marcos stated.

(However after all, in the long run, the true answer to that’s flood management. We are going to repair the flood management. We are going to do irrigation. We are going to save water in order that once we are hit by drought, like now, we can have a water supply.)

READ: Marcos: Cagayan River flood management venture to guard 60,000 residents

In his third State of the Nation Handle, the President underscored the necessity for flood management tasks and talked about the flood danger administration venture within the Cagayan River as one of many authorities’s options to the lasting results of La Niña.

He famous that greater than 5,500 flood tasks have already been accomplished in his administration. — Felice Nafarrete, INQUIRER.internet intern