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With the water supply declining and water demand rising due to the summer heat, the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) asked their customers to store water. In their advisory, MCWD asked the residents, schools, lodging houses, boarding…
As temperatures continue to rise, Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma urged the people to turn to prayer. He did not issue an oratio imperata, or mandatory prayer for deliverance from calamities. But he urged priests to lead the…
The Cebu City Agriculture Department plans to set up water catchments in the 31 mountain barangays that were declared under a state of calamity for an approaching dry spell. More than 100 farmers and barangay officials gathered…
GOV. Hilario Davide III assured that the Cebu Provincial Government will help all local government units (LGUs) affected by the dry spell. Davide said they have not received any damage reports from the towns but disaster funds…
If it persists, the El Niño weather pattern would affect the freshwater aquaculture sector the most. Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources regional director Andres M. Bojos said they have advised fisher folk to maintain water levels…
TWO more Cebu municipalities have been placed under a state of calamity due to below-normal rainfall since March. Argao in the south and Borbon in the north joined Tuburan in passing separate resolutions declaring a state of…
The Cebu provincial disaster council yesterday recommended the declaration of a state of calamity in the entire province. Below-normal rainfall since March has damaged crops and caused water levels to go down, said Baltazar Tribunalo, Jr., head…
Residents of Cebu City’s upland barangays were told to procure containers and hoses to ration water from mobile water siphon tanks provided by the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD). “The MSTs operate 24 hours a day. What…
The Cebu City Council yesterday declared 31 upland barangays under a state of calamity because of the effects of the dry spell. This will enable the city to tap disaster funds for relief operations in areas which…
Farms, rural areas told to store water, protect spring water sources Store barrels of water and build water cisterns. The dry spell in Cebu is forecast to drag on and intensify this year. Weather forecaster Oscar Tabada…
The Mactan office of the state weather bureau Pagasa said the El Niño dry spell will last until August at the earliest or January next year at the latest. During this morning’s water summit organized by the…
Cebu is in for more hot days, with temperatures potentially going beyond 34 degrees Celsius, the weather bureau said. Alfredo Quiblat, acting chief of Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) Mactan, said the El Niño…
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