Angat Dam — File photo by Grig C. Montegrande | INQUIRER
CITY OF MALOLOS, Philippines — While 17 people died with 10 more missing in Mindanao because of Supertyphoon Inday (international name: Bavi), more than 15 million residents of the Metro Manila area and more than 22,000 farmers in Pampanga and Bulacan continue to pray for rain.
Angat Dam’s water level fell further to 156.07 meters above sea level (masl) on Saturday, with local officials saying only heavy rains from a typhoon crossing the Sierra Madre mountain range — not the southwest monsoon or “habagat” — can replenish the country’s main reservoir.
The reservoir stood at 156.09 meters above sea level (masl) at 6 a.m. before dipping further to 156.02 masl by 1 p.m., based on records from the Bulacan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO).
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