Severe Flooding Bares Garbage and Corruption Problems in the Philippines

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Severe flooding in the Philippines has exposed issues of corruption and garbage mismanagement linked to flood-control projects. These projects, pushed through using climate crisis urgency, have been found defective or in some cases nonexistent, raising concerns about oversight and governance.

Lawmakers and contractors used the climate crisis to push forward flood-control projects. But those have turned out to be defective and in some cases even non-existent.