A geologist and resilience expert of the University of the Philippines urged the restoration of the forest cover and other measures to help mitigate the perennial floods during typhoon season, instead of building more dikes.
In Ian Cruz’s report in “24 Oras” on Thursday, UP Resilience Institute and NOAH Center executive director Mahar Lagmay said the forest cover that vanished in the past two decades must be restored.
He added that there must be a retention basin, as well as flow-through or mini dams that could hel
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