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Photos of the flood in elements of Hernan Cortes in Mandaue City, following the heavy downpour final July 2025. | Mun Nillas
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu, together with the cities of Cebu, Mandaue, and Lapu-Lapu City, ranks second within the checklist of provinces with probably the most variety of flood management initiatives within the nation.
The Malacañang on Monday, August 11, launched the Sumbong sa Pangulo, an internet site that enables the general public to observe and report the standing of infrastructure initiatives aimed toward mitigating flooding of their space.
The palace, by means of its Presidential Communications Office (PCO), additionally launched key findings from the web portal, together with the provinces that obtained probably the most flood management initiatives.
With 414, Cebu ranked second, subsequent to Bulacan which tops the checklist. But Cebu, regardless of experiencing extreme floodings even after only a transient downpour notably within the city areas, didn’t belong to the checklist of most flood-province areas within the Philippines, in accordance with the PCO.
The different provinces which has probably the most variety of flood-control initiatives included Isabela, Pangasinan, Pampanga, Albay, Leyte, Tarlac, Camarines Sur and Ilocos Norte.
President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. himself ordered the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to give you the checklist throughout his latest State of the Nation Address (Sona) to find out which of them have been failures, unfinished, or “ghost” initiatives.
“We have received the list from DPWH. We, I think, have put it into a form that is accessible to the public,” he mentioned.
“And most importantly, it is in a form that the public can use so that they can first identify the projects—the flood control projects that are within their area, within their barangay, so that they can actually go and look at it,” Marcos added./ with reviews from INQUIRER.net
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