00:00Good afternoon everyone. We are here in the MMDA at kakatapos lang ng briefing on the effects of the monsoon
00:12na nakikita natin kung ano yung naging epekto lalong-lalo na dito sa Metro Manila, sa National Capital Region.
00:21At sa ating nakuhang briefing ay nakita natin may mga lugar na talaga namang tinamaan pa rin ng baha pero
00:31mas bawas na. Kung dati ay two stories ang baha, ngayon siguro hanggang tuhod na lang. Yung iba hindi na
00:41nabaha.
00:42At ang isa pang bagay dyan ay mas mabilis na ang paglabas ng tubig. At kung yung kundate mag-aantay
00:52ang tao ng dalawa tatlong araw bago mawala yung baha. Ngayon wala pang isang araw ay wala na.
00:58At sa loob ng limang oras, 201 millimeters. Ito ay katumbas ng 44% na bumagsakit ang tubig ito in
01:125 hours.
01:14This is 44% of the rain that fell during Typhoon Undoy over a period of 24 hours.
01:28So one half of the water volume that fell for 24 hours in Typhoon Undoy, this time within 5 hours,
01:3844% of that.
01:40So it was 201 millimeters that fell in 5 hours.
01:48And that is, yan ang ating ngayon na hinaharap dahil nga sa climate change.
01:55Dahil yung Undoy was special, was unusual.
01:58Now this is a little bit becoming a little bit like the new normal.
02:07Makita natin na maganda naman ang naging efekto patuloy yung ating dredging.
02:12Yung ating mga pininspeksyon, yung pinalaki natin ng mga drainage systems.
02:16Naglagay tayo ng malalaking tubo.
02:19Kung maalala ninyo, meron tayong mga pinuntahan na pinalitan.
02:24Yung mga after World War II pa yung mga drainage na ginawa.
02:31Ay pinaltan natin yung maliliit na concrete na tubo.
02:34Ay pinaltan na natin yung mga mas malaki na tubo para mas mabilis ang paglabas, ang pagdaluin ng tubig.
02:45Pati na yung mga pumping station natin.
02:48We have 73 pumping stations that are, all of them are functioning now.
02:54Marami dun ay hindi pa nakapag-function, minsan hindi pa gumana yun yung mga iba dyan.
03:01Ngayon, napapaandar na natin lahat.
03:04At patuloy pa rin ang ating dredging, patuloy pa rin ang ating pagbomba,
03:11ang pumping station, meron pa tayo yung mobile na pumping equipment.
03:16We have 11 of those, I believe, that we are also using.
03:23Ang tinamaan dito ay 4,700 barangays, 1.7 million families.
03:31We have, unfortunately, already 27 casualties and 17 who are injured.
03:41So you can see that the effects of the monsoon has been widespread and severe in terms of its effect.
03:51And so moving forward, what we are looking at is meron tayong na-identify,
03:57meron na may tumulong sa atin na galing Netherlands na tinuruan tayo at pinag-aralan kung saan, paano, paano ba
04:06yung mga iba pwede natin gawin.
04:08And those are to maglalagay, maghuhukay tayo sa ilalim ng mga existing facilities.
04:18Halimbawa, yung mga football fields, yung mga open fields, yung mga kahit na may building, pwede namang hukayin yun.
04:25And they have already identified 30 sites, some of which are in Raja Sulaiman, Rizal Memorial, Camp Aguinaldo.
04:36Para sa ilalim lahat ito, hukayin ito, tapos i-re-restore naman kung ano yung nandun dati.
04:43Sa Camp Aguinaldo, sa UST, at ang natapos na, kaya't meron na tayong 30 sites na pwede natin gamitin para
04:54dito sa mga cistern.
04:56At inaantay na lang natin yung detailed engineering, which will be finished.
05:02Hopefully within the month, Mr. President.
05:04Within this month, matatapos na yung detailed engineering.
05:07Pag natapos na yung detailed engineering, titignan namin, ipaprioritize na namin, sisimula na namin ang paghukay.
05:13We are already, at the present time, conferring and speaking to the areas,
05:21kung sino man ang namamahala doon sa mga area na yun, na pumayag sila para hukayin nga yung kanilang lugar.
05:31And we are also looking at the continuing upgrading, for example, of the seawalls,
05:39of all the other detailed management of the floodwaters.
05:48And that is what we are trying to do.
05:50And not only, in the initial briefing, doon sa mga kukukaya natin, nalalagyan nga natin kung saan natin ipunin yung
06:00tubig,
06:01pinasabi ko pag-aralan natin na imbis na itapon yung tubig sa dagat,
06:05ay sana makahanap tayo ng sistema, gagawa tayo ng sistema,
06:09para kung ano man yung nakulekta na tubig ay magamit din.
06:12Magamit for household use, magamit for industrial purposes, magamit for irrigation,
06:19whatever uses that we can find for it, para hindi naman masayang.
06:23Dahil nakakapanghinayan, makita natin, nakapag-kulekta tayo ng napakarami,
06:27ng napakarami na tubig, na fresh water,
06:32ay tatapon lang natin sa dagat at kailangan na kailangan natin yan.
06:36There is an interesting statistic here that the 201.7 millimeters na bumagsak na tubig na ulan
06:49ay katumbas ng halos 50,000 na Olympic-sized na swimming pool.
06:55Kaya't you can just, para to be able to conceive or to be able to have an image for yourselves,
07:04kung gano'n karami yan, it is 50,000, the equivalent of 50,000 50-meter swimming pools
07:12that yung nakikita natin sa Rizal Memorial at sa mga ibang lugar.
07:1850,000 of those size pools, the water that is contained in that was what fell in the past few
07:27days.
07:28So, these are the things that we are doing.
07:29We will continue to dredge, hindi naman titigil yan.
07:33And some of the pumping stations have stopped operating because there is no more water to pump out.
07:39But, of course, they will stay on station.
07:42At pagka tumuloy pa yung ulan, then we will continue to do what we had started to do this time.
07:47So, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done.
07:53But, with the effects that we have seen, because after all, if we look at the beginnings of the water
08:01management that we have done,
08:03this is only, this is the effect of the work of the last six, seven months,
08:11na nakita natin, nakabawas ka agad.
08:14Kaya tipapagpatuloy natin ito.
08:15And to make sure that we have some, we have solutions for the very short term,
08:21we have solutions for the medium term,
08:23and eventually we will have solutions for the longer term.
08:26All right?
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