What Dumaguete Can Learn from the Flooding of Cebu City?
What Dumaguete Can Learn from the Flooding of Cebu City? What Dumaguete Can Learn from the Flooding of Cebu City? It won’t be long before Dumaguete starts to suffer the same problem Cebu City is facing now. While I’m writing this article, heavy rains have caused floods in some areas of Cebu City. Rainwater entered houses, shopping centers, and business establishments. It was indeed a commuter’s worst nightmare—especially for those who still had to report to work. This is not the first time that Cebu City has experienced rising water levels. Flooding has become a recurring issue in the Queen City of the South, as it has in many other growing cities in the Philippines. But why should Dumaguete be concerned about what’s happening in Cebu now? Waist-high floods have not yet reached Dumaguete City, but they could if nothing is done by government officials. In recent years, heavy rains have caused drainage canals to overflow, flooding the streets with water about a foot high. This has ...