MANILA, Philippines — Repeated flooding cannot be treated as just a flood-control issue that calls for building drainage infrastructure but demands broader preventive, nature-based solutions, Sen. Loren Legarda stressed in a statement issued on Wednesday. She made the following nature-based solutions: These measures, she pointed out, should complement well-designed drainage, pumping stations, floodways, and other necessary engineered infrastructure. “When forests have vanished, canals and estuaries have been covered, and lake outlets have grown narrow, where would the water go? We can’t fight flooding by building more concrete structures. The real solutions are on the ground, on the trees, and on other […]...Keep on reading: Recurring floods call for preventive, nature-based solutions – Legarda