Man-made lake needs 34M liters of water

True to their word, workers have completed the dredging of Burnham Lake here two weeks before the opening of the Baguio Flower Festival in February.

True to their word, workers have completed the dredging of Burnham Lake here two weeks before the opening of the Baguio Flower Festival in February.

Mt. Pinatubo is best for trekking, not for swimming. And don’t go there during heavy rain. Mayor Antonio Rodriguez of Capas, Tarlac, aired this advice on Friday after a 44-year-old man drowned at the volcano’s crater-lake on Jan. 2.

Flooding caused by a swollen Laguna de Bay continues to subside, but residents in the surrounding communities in Laguna hardly feel any relief.
Nearly 50 tons of tilapia were lost in fishkills that have struck Lake Sebu in South Cotabato since Friday, prompting fisheries officials to issue a ban on the sale and consumption of fish harvested from the lake.
BATANGAS CITY, Philippines—Showing no signs of abating, the Taal Lake fishkill has spread to two more towns and a city over the weekend. Authorities on Sunday reported tons of farmed and endemic fish species turning belly up in new areas of the freshwater lake, just hours after they were done emptying some of the worst-hit [...]