ah, every time it rains, rowena jimenez says her hot pounds, her neighbourhood on the outskirts of manila floods each year, say experienced calling all the worst flooding i've experienced a happened during typhoon kit santa. it reached as high as 7 meters here. and then the monsoon brought more flooding in our savvy thought. she blames environmental damage up stream for the floods. the marchina river basin works as a catchment area regulating water flow down to manila, logging mining and urban development has encroached on the basin, leaving only patches of forest, but akin water showed this losing ground for absorbing green water. so what happens is that when it rains more much of the rainwater, now can i penetrate the soil the accumulate on the surface of the ground and that they flow very fast. dr. cruz says the projected impacts of climate change will make this even worse as heavier and more frequent rain has nowhere to go. for the people working to protect the forest, the conflict between development and conservation interests can spill over into violence. cook and mass is a forest r