‘Environment and disasters: too much water or not enough of it’Through the year’s annual cycle, we get disasters that happen with regularity. The country experienced disastrous floods, made complicated by the release of excess water from dams that have accumulated threateningly high water levels. Water resources investments have to be harnessed safely for national development. Like the nation’s energy development program, water resources investments got hijacked in the wrong direction some decades ago. The life of major investments in water resources depends on keeping watershed areas safe from encroachments and destruction through deforestation.

Source: Philippine Star November 24, 2020 15:56 UTC