00:00Floods have swallowed streets, houses, and even cemeteries in Hagonoy.
00:04Residents point to broken flood projects they call hollow and useless as officials remain out of sight.
00:10Isaiah Maria Fuentes tells us more.
00:14As we entered Hagonoy, Bulacan, giant-like tricycles immediately greeted us.
00:20A sign of the severe flooding in the area that people appear to have grown hopeless over.
00:25We went deeper in the barangays of Hagonoy.
00:27What welcomed us were flooded streets, floodwaters that have been a daily calvary for the residents of four months.
00:42Even inside the house of Tatay Nelson, flood is present every single day.
00:52They have no choice.
00:55But to go with the flow because the problem seems irreparable.
01:00Even the quiet cemetery where the dead are laid to rest is submerged in flood water.
01:05The residents blame the problem to the flood control projects that practically do not work.
01:10The flood walls are nothing but air inside.
01:14Crack, broken, and clearly useless.
01:17This is why some residents prefer reducing a boat travel to their destinations, which they say is faster.
01:25Based on the reports submitted to the Sumbong sa Pangulo website, there are 16 flood control projects in Hagonoy, Bulacan.
01:32All of which, upon close inspections, are practically useless.
01:36Or perhaps, some exist only in imagination.
01:40We tried to go to the city government of Hagonoy to request a statement from their engineering office and even the mayor himself.
01:47But according to city hall officials, they were not there.
01:51Isaiah Mirafuentes from the National TV Network for a new and better Philippines.
01:56Isaiah Mirafuentes from the National TV Network for a new and better Philippines.
