Baguio City and its neighboring Benguet towns of Tuba and Itogon joined hands to preserve the watershed of Kennon Road’s Bued River system using new data and a management plan drawn up by Project Danum. | via Vincent Cabreza/PDI
The data collected helped shape the Bued watershed management plan that was turned over to the environment offices of Baguio, Tuba and Itogon on Tuesday.One of the plan’s recommendations was for all three local governments to synchronize and harmonize their respective land use plans.
These communities must talk because “some of the proposed land use upstream may affect the land use downstream,” Lubrica said. At least 174,553 people live near or along the Bued River system and its watershed, according to Project Danum’s demographic profile of the area. They belong to 41 villages in Tuba, Itogon and Baguio. At least 70 percent of these Bued settlements are in the summer capital, he said.
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