Families displaced by Benguet dams now face flood threat

BAGUIO CITY — Indigenous communities along the Upper Agno River are seeking government intervention as worsening siltation reduces the river’s capacity to safely carry floodwaters decades after their ancestral lands were surrendered for the construction of the Ambuklao and Binga dams. Prolonged monsoon rains swelled the river on Aug. 11, damaging portions of flood-control structures