Saving La Mesa Reservoir

Saving La Mesa Reservoir

According to a news released weeks later, the Manila area is on its way to drought if it would not rain for the La Mesa Reservoir continues to dry inch by inch. Not til the storm Reming hit the country yet the news still stressed that on next year the Manila area has the possibility to run out of water. Years ago the Manila area experienced the same water problem deal, being repeated like a cycle and never fixed.

With the drought then, Manila asked for the Montalban Dam to help fulfill their residents daily water needs. But when the La Mesa Dam was fixed, Manila just resort to La Mesa for all its water needs and Montalban Dam, now Rodriguez Dam supplies water only along the Marikina area. For the Montalban Dam (Boso-Boso Dam, Wawa Dam, Rodriguez Dam were it's other name) was another Reservoir known as the Marikina Watershed Reservation.

Tree Planting was one of the methods Manilenos thought of saving the La Mesa Reservoir, with regards to the subdivision project to be constructed along the La Mesa Park they collected 10 million votes to eliminate the project. Napocor is also one to blame with the continual decrease of the La Mesa water, for the release of too much water for its hydroelectric powerplant. During the Marcos regime, the government decided to construct nuclear powerplant to prevent frequent brownout. But when the Marcos regime stoppled down, it was discontinued for the Aquino regime feared of pollution. Taiwan is a country smaller than Philippines but it has eight nuclear powerplants, yet Taiwanese do not complain anything about pollution.

Maybe it is in the word nuclear that people say it's polluting but if you look to reality if it was then Taiwan's already a hell. As of now the only solution I recommend to save the La Mesa Reservoir is support the project such as plant trees along the area and conserve water.