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Cebu braces for El Niño

The Cebu provincial government is preparing to acquire eight additional water tankers and two desalination machines costing P8 million each as it strengthens water security measures ahead of a possible El Niño-driven drought.

Cebu Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office head Dennis Francis Pastor said the proposed desalination machines are portable and solar-powered.

Pastor said the equipment could help produce water during emergencies when conventional sources can no longer meet demand.

The province is also assessing springs, wells and rivers for rehabilitation, grouping municipalities into northern, central and southern clusters for coordinated disaster response, and exploring solar-powered irrigation with the National Irrigation Administration.

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00:00They have their, I met all the local TRNOs and I got from them that they are preparing and still
00:12they are preparing with their enemies but the trust of the province right now is that water security is the
00:23major operational objective for this enemy.
00:36So I drafted a plan together with Secretary Ace Durango for a CEBU Ending New Preparedness Critication Plan.
00:48So it's really a home-to-home approach and a community approach also because preparedness always starts on the family
01:01and out to the community.
01:03So the plan really outlines what each of the departments on the capital should be doing and are tasked to
01:15do.
01:15So they have also their plans.
01:18Just an example for agriculture, they have this agriculture and livestock protection plan for it.
01:25And maybe it's also important that the provincial information officers will have also a risk communication and even a crisis
01:34communication plan or a public information plan.
01:37It's a matrix challenge to do it.
01:39And because from the, when I presented status as mentioned earlier, of the aluminium forecast, it can be, right now
01:49we're in normal situations, still raining, but we'll feel it on the dry spell on December.
01:57But the dry condition in the dry spell in January, in February, it started to drop on March.
02:05It will last until the half of the year.
02:10And after that, it ends, we do recovery.
02:13So we, so from, from, from, from, from, from, from agriculture, it's going to be fit by this, you know,
02:22so I just want to say that during the meeting with the elder animals, about 51 of them, the first
02:30class was,
02:31first we clustered them north, center and the south, and they were grouped and they were asked to identify the
02:44greatest risk of the cluster.
02:46Could be agriculture, could be water supply, and they were able to identify that.
02:53And next was, how can each of the clusters or the group of municipalities can help each other?
03:00because there is a threshold on where the province can help each other.
03:05Like normal conditions, the LG should be preparing itself.
03:10And then there's, until, if we get into the last condition, which is a crisis situation,
03:17it's really the government, really the national government.
03:21So there are tasks for them to do, and they were able to identify even the sources of water.
03:28from springs, from wells, from rivers.
03:35And, thank you to me, the problem now is, can we look into our past LTV history as I can
03:43dry up?
03:44Because, ah, possible to, haklopan dry, doon kayo naka-recover.
03:50But the, ah, interventions ali is, mga solar power, power banks, power stations,
03:55that can, ah, solar na siya, so, it's a generator ng solar, ah, nataan na, ah, we can, we can,
04:08ah, you know,
04:22agriculture for Pampil is solar. We also talked with irrigation yesterday,
04:29Natural Irrigation Authority, it's also solar. So in terms of addressing the problems of
04:35putting it on energy, or as the big room, drought, if it's hot, we have the power.
04:43Just, solar is very expensive also.

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