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DPWH Metro Manila flooding solution

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  1. GETTING through With an umbrella overhead and floodwaters at his feet, a commuter makes his way toward the MRT along Taft Avenue in Manila on 29 August as heavy habagat rains inundate parts of the capital. The tangled wires and concrete infrastructure overhead frame a familiar Manila scene, one in which getting from one place to another can become a test of endurance when the rain comes.

    Flood crisis paralyzes NCR, Central Luzon

    Heavy rains flood Metro Manila and Luzon, affecting millions, killing at least 32 people and causing billions in damage as PAGASA warns of more rain.

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  4. NICOLAS Torre III

    Urban sprawl fuels Metro flooding — MMDA

    MMDA links Metro Manila’s worsening flood risk to rapid urbanization and rising waste, calling for stronger flood control coordination and better garbage…

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  6. FLOODED streets due to Typhoon

    Another flood, another reckoning

    In those six hours, I could have reached Baguio, with a stopover or two. Instead, I barely moved around San Juan.

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  7. PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. inspects the ongoing clearing and waste collection operations at the Redemptorist Water Channel in Parañaque City on Wednesday, where a ‘sea of trash’ accumulated amid heavy rains brought by the southwest monsoon or habagat.

    Marcos: Floods becoming ‘new normal’

    President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said increasingly intense rainfall linked to climate change is straining flood control efforts, as Metro Manila battles…

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  8. After the deluge Streets turn into rivers and fences into trash traps as Metro Manila reels from days of relentless rain. Workers haul heaps of single-use plastic caught along Araneta Avenue in Quezon City, while residents in Valenzuela and Manila brave knee-deep floods. With the southwest monsoon showing no signs of letting up, the next three days promise more rain — and more hardship.

    Drifting away

    As my vehicle struggled through the waist-deep flood, I found myself stuck in traffic for two hours on Visayas Avenue in Quezon City with the water continuing…

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  9. Following the sudden heavy rain in the metro on Friday morning, some roads are already in knee-deep floods especially along Kalaw in Manila.

    Antiquated responses

    While the mayors may be doing what they can to de-clog the drainage systems and put up floodwalls and barriers, there’s the suspicion that they’re not really…

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  10. An ARROW against flood control

    An ARROW against flood control

    With the ARROW Act in force, the DPWH can design a unified, intercity flood-control master plan instead of the piecemeal, city-by-city projects that now…

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