The head of a think-tank institute has suggested that people against the Chinese-funded Kaliwa Dam must be listed down, and should not be allowed to draw water from it once the program is finished. | GabrielLaluINQ
According to Siy, people must remember that Angat Dam, which supplies Metro Manila and nearby provinces with freshwater, was constructed with the help of China.
He then clarified that it is not about whether people should not oppose projects and loans offered by China; rather, it is about implementing programs and projects that are needed by the country. “They have to remember, people have to remember, the Angat Dam — from which Metro Manila draws majority, more than 70 percent of its water — was also funded by the Chinese earlier. We’re not saying we should do it with the Chinese, we have to do what needs to be done, where our country will win,” Siy explained.
“As much as possible we want to be friends with everybody, sometimes we have to offend a few people, but on the overall, we’d just make it up to them because Filipinos are the warmest people in the world, and they’ll know how to make ligaw again, you know, when the time comes,” he added. The Kaliwa Dam, a proposed dam situated in Infanta, Quezon, is seen to address water shortage experienced by Metro Manila in recent years. However, there is stiff opposition regarding the plan, because it is believed to have a detrimental effect on the environment — which sits on ancestral land of the Dumagat tribe.
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