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Flooding

Flooding. What are the causes? What are the effects? What are the strategies available to plan, predict and take action?. Fertile soils is washed away Fertile soil is salinated Drinking water is contaminated Damage to Crops and trees Buildings Public utilities Power Water Telephone

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Flooding

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  1. Flooding What are the causes? What are the effects? What are the strategies available to plan, predict and take action?

  2. Fertile soils is washed away • Fertile soil is salinated • Drinking water is contaminated • Damage to • Crops and trees • Buildings • Public utilities • Power • Water • Telephone • Sewerage Effects of Flooding

  3. Reduced income from agricultural exports • Reduced income from tourism • Shortage of locally grown food • Cost of rebuilding • Buildings • Infrastructure • Less money to spend on social services and investment Effects on the Economy

  4. Social disruption • Communities are cut off • Families and communities have to adjust of homes, crops and family members • Mental Stress • Takes years to repair • Fear complex Social Effects

  5. There were small efforts to reforest our watershed. Our group started a small indigenous forest species (dipterocarp) reforestation project in the Dansolihon, Bayanga areas, in the Monigue Creek, but when external funds went dry, it wasn’t anymore replicated. Many other small initiatives were done, but none big and sustainable enough was pursued. These big and sustainable project, naturally should have been done by the government, both the local and national government. But instead, our officials looked the other way, enjoyed the bright city lights and ignored the elephant in our backyard so to speak. Then came January 3, 2009… • The cause of the disaster that visited us is not a result of short-term causes but a result of 20 – 30 years of abuse and neglect to our forest ecosystem, the watershed of Cagayan de Oro. It was a result of unabated legal and illegal logging and mindless land use conversion. Opinion

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