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Flood Control | The Manila Times Newsmakers

Watch The Manila Times Columnist Ben Kritz and Asian Development Bank Vice President for East and Southeast Asia Scott Morris discuss flooding and how the ADB helps least developed countries adapt to climate change in the first episode of Newsmakers at The Manila Times Streaming Channel on Feb. 10 at 7 a.m.

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Transcript
00:00There's, you know, there's tremendous need around controlling flooding, and we see that
00:08across the country.
00:09That is obviously a sensitive subject here.
00:13So, you know, you start from recognizing, you know, the huge damage, you know, tremendous
00:19toll that it takes on human life, the economic costs of this increased frequency and intensity
00:26of flooding events.
00:28But then when you move to, okay, what's the investment plan, what do we have to do?
00:33That's where you quickly see the scale of, I mean, these are very large infrastructure
00:39projects.

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