The government is set to upgrade and modernize 36 pumping stations and construct new facilities to mitigate the perennial flooding in Metro Manila during heavy rains.
This developed shortly after the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the World Bank approved late last month the P23-billion loan to kickstart the Metro Manila Flood Management Project.
The project was approved by the National Economic and Development Authority in 2012 and will specifically address the structural measures to improve urban drainage in the metropolis.
It will be achieved through an integrated set of interventions to modernize existing pumping stations to accommodate urban expansion; increase short-term water retention capacity in the drainage areas; reduce the volume of the indiscriminately dumped solid waste into waterways; and support community—driven resettlement of Informal Settler Families encroaching in easements for drains and waterways linked to the project pumping stations to safer in-city locations.
