Flood control programs
DPWH Secretary Manuel Bonoan said during last Monday’s Senate hearing on his agency’s proposed 2025 budget the DPWH was implementing measures to mitigate flooding in the country, a favorite sparring partner of typhoons and storms.
Bonoan said “there will certainly be an improvement. (Flooding) will most likely be mitigated by the infrastructure program that we are undertaking this time.”
What is clear, he said, is that there will be improvement in addressing flood control, particularly in low-lying areas.
Note that the DPWH has been implementing flood control projects under the Marcos government’s Build Better More program.
In the view of many, it is to the credit of concerned government officials, who waste no time in providing moral, financial and material help to victims of natural disasters.
In a recent situation briefing, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. reiterated his order to study the possibility of incorporating weirs or barriers that are used to regulate the flow of river water in the national flood control program.
PBBM instructed relevant agencies to look into the technologies being used by other countries, including the Netherlands.
“The Europeans, for the last millennium, they’ve been using weirs already, alam na nila iyan. Maybe the Dutch would know dahil sila ang pinaka-magaling sa water management.
I’ve seen it in every country in Europe, I’ve seen it in Germany, England, in France, everywhere and it seems to calm the waters down,” the President said.