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Febelyn Drilo | Maisulao village, Calumpit municipality

I am a housewife with three small children. It’s difficult because we have to continue living in our home even when it’s full of floodwater. If the children fall into the water, we just lift them up. We raise our beds to sleep. The water was up to chest-high last week. This area used to be all farmland with plants, but now its gone.

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A woman in a pink dress stands i a knee-deep water in her flooded house, with their belongings piled up high. " I hope we can get help with the problem of rising water, which has been here since Typhoon Emong. The water has been increasing; it’s not disappearing any more. That’s the change I’ve seen here."
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Emily Irabagon | San Miguel village, Calumpit municipality

It’s hard. We’ve been submerged for almost seven months. If the water is high, we can’t get out to stock up on food. You can’t get out unless someone takes you. And the students here barely have school. I’ve grown old here; I’m 65 years old. When it flooded here in the past, it went straight down.

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A 65-year-old woman stands in her flooded room, the picture of The Last Supper behind her. "But when it floods now, it goes up and down until we’ve reached seven months of mud and water. They shouldn’t cut down the trees on the mountains and block water channels that let the water flow straight out."
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