‘Ghost’ flood projects haunt poor


Staying connected: A woman using her mobile phone as she rides on a boat to cross a flooded street following rains, intensified by Severe Tropical Storm Bualoi, in Dela Paz, Binan, Laguna province. — Reuters

Living in the riverside village of Sipat, Josephine Dela Cruz watches the soil erode with every storm, haunted by the fear that one day the ground will wash away completely and take her family with it.

One night this summer, heavy rains toppled trees and knocked down a bamboo stilt house in their settlement in Bulacan, a densely populated province north of Manila, she said.

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