Editor's Choice: Philippine dam meets indigenous resistance
Editor's Choice: Philippine dam meets indigenous resistance
3 min • Nature & Environment, Society • 2019

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Amid insufficient rainfall, millions of residents in the Philippine capital Manila are facing a water shortage. Under pressure to secure more water, the Philippine government cleared a new, China-funded dam project in the nation’s north,meant to deliver an additional 600 million liters of water a day. But the so called Kaliwa Dam would mean thousands of indigenous people displaced and hectares of forestland destroyed.

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