Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay said priority must be given to improving Makati’s flood control and management program and maintaining, if not further reducing, the receding time of floods ...

The floods in Metro Manila were caused mainly by the failure of existing flood control systems to work. The CAMANAVA Flood Control Project which was started during the time of President Estrada in ...

In dire need of a sound bite? Presidential Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro disclosed last week that President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (PBBM) purportedly directed the immediate ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has directed government agencies concerned to ramp up efforts in mitigating the effects of the ...

The EDSA Bus Rapid Transit and the Metro Manila flood control are two priority projects the Philippines intends to present before the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for possible funding, ...

MANILA, Philippines—A recent bill filed in Congress proposing a massive flood control system with an expressway on top is causing more alarm among environmental and marine conservation groups ...

Congress has currently earmarked 779.38 billion Philippine pesos ($13.9bn) for the DPWH flood control efforts in 2025, approximately 12 percent of the proposed national budget.

Five of them were in Metro Manila: the Napindan Hydraulic Control Structure in 1983; Mangahan Floodway in 1988; Effective Flood Control and Warning System in 2002; West of Mangahan Flood Control ...

The flooding problem in Metro Manila is multifaceted. These involve river floods ... on the flawed P350-billion master flood-control project of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). The ...

The EDSA Bus Rapid Transit system and the Metro Manila Flood Management Project are the first two projects the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will co-finance, the Department of Finance ...

The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) issued an urgent call on Monday to all local government units (LGUs) in Western Visayas to promptly assess, upgrade, and ...

CONGLOMERATE San Miguel Corp. has submitted a P338.8-billion public-private partnership (PPP) project to construct a sea barrier and flood control system along Manila Bay alongside an expressway ...