Dolores Hipolito (2nd from left), Project Manager IIIoftheUnified Project Management Office Flood Control Management cluster of the Department of Public Works and Highways duringthe Saturday News Forum inQuezon Cityon Feb. 3, 2023. (PNA photo by Robert Oswald P. Alfiler) MANILA - The government has allocated PHP20 billion for the first phase of the Integrated Flood Resilience and Adaptation Project in three major river basins in the country. Dolores Hipolito, Project Manager III of the Unified Project Management Office Flood Control Management cluster of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), said the multi-billion-peso project aims to mitigate flood damage, reduce flood risks, and improve climate resilience in Abra, Ranao (Agus), and Tagum-Libuganon. "So unlike in the past, the focus of the DPWH is to provide structural measures or to construct these infrastructures. Here, we are looking at flood risk management. So this project includes three components: one compone
LEGAZPI CITY - The Department of Science and Technology in Bicol (DOST-5) through its Catanduanes provincial office will soon build desalination facilities that will provide clean, potable water to two barangays. In an interview on Friday, Marie Grace Molina, DOST-Catanduanes director, said their regional office is allocating PHP2.9 million for the development of a desalination project in Pandan town. "The project is under the Community Empowerment thru Science and Technology (CEST) program and Pandan is one of our CEST communities in Catanduanes, aside from that, the beneficiary barangay has a scarcity in water supply," Molina said. She said the municipality of Pandan has set aside a counterpart fund of PHP1.5 million for the project. "The project will be an eco-enterprise to provide funds for the maintenance of the facility. The equipment will provide low-cost clean water compared to water refilling stations which are very expensive," she added. Asked when the pro