What are the causes of the flooding in MM? Any solutions?

It is more fun criticizing

Rizal Philippines   | September 23, 2014

The area near the SM Marikina is inundated because the floodway which is just 30 meters wide and 4 meters deep vis (100 meters and 10 meters) is choked and thus Pasig river, which is it was designed to empty into Laguna Lake, is flooded





Floods at Ortigas  Avenue ( can we relate this to the abuse of Pasig River and Manggahan floodway?)


What caused the flooding?  A flurry of interviews and TV shows and articles are coming out to analyze again the cause of the flood:

Again let us enumerate:

1.  Force majeure  - the 269 mm of rainfall for the 24 hour period is the equivalent of 1/2 month of rainfall.;

2.  Global warming -  the warm Pacific Ocean and atmosphere loads typhoons with more energy and moisture that fall as rain.  This is a very convenient excuse



3.  Clogged drainage  -  plastics, sand, silt, trash clog the drainage


Garbage and encroachment on esteros;  we cant fight nor convince developers to demolish their encroachment

4. Flood control projects, pumps that do not work  (Espana has had several flood control projects and yet it floods at when the dogs piss.)


Squatters must go?   Or they and us suffer floods endlessly?


Squatters at floodway banks (west bank) We have no will to resist their votes?






Would the flooding be the same if the banks of floodway were cleared of squatters?

From GMA news - encroachment of Manggahan floodway blamed for Pasig river swelling.  It has become narrower and shallower  - thanks to.....

5.   Settlers on esteros and river banks (accretion).  Pasig river then looked very wide.  Now it seems that it is only 15 meters wide.   Manggahan floodway is heavily silted.  Squatters dump their shit and garbage at Manggahan floodway.


From here we can judge that the Manggahan floodway overflow, flooded Ortigas Ave after the Manggahan bridge.  Manggahan floodway should be dredged and declogged.

From coconuter (mambubuko?)

Does the recent monitoring of air quality reflect our resolve to solve flooding?

Social and political criticisms

After the floods, the rescue, the finger pointing and the talks about the floods/flood control, climate change, nothing much has changed.  Japan's resolve to save themselves from future tsunami floods, and typhoons has been to build all EV for the world to help reduce carbon emissions in the air.

But what have we done?  Are we improving air quality?  Are we helping reduce carbon emissions?

Are we contributing to lessen climate change?

 x                                   Can you see the buildings from afar?

 x                          How much carbon is hanging in the air?

 x                               The Sucat Paranaque area looks a little bit clean

             

                        This is the Pasig/Ortigas area;   can you see the buildings?

What are we doing right after the floods regarding this primary cause of global warming --.> climae change?

NOTHING?  We cant claim something because the air quality has become worse....