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Metro Manila floods because we built our cities in the paths nature designed for water, says expert

The fundamental reason Metro Manila floods is not engineering failure or government neglect alone — it is that generations of Filipinos built their homes, roads, and commercial centers directly in the valleys, river deltas, and natural drainage paths that nature designed specifically to carry…

Liam Demafelix·

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