Philippine flood victims demand accountability for failed control infrastructure

Communities experienced flooding and property damage despite having funded flood control infrastructure in place.

In the northern Philippines, where monsoon rains arrive not as surprise but as seasonal certainty, communities are confronting a wound that runs deeper than floodwater: the suspicion that the infrastructure they paid for existed more on paper than on the ground. The anger rising from these inundated streets is not the anger of people caught off guard by nature, but of people who believed a promise had been kept — and discovered, when the rains came, that it had not. Their question — where did the money go — is one that echoes across many societies where public funds and public safety are meant

Philippine flood victims demand accountability for failed control infrastructure

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