{"id":11690,"date":"2014-05-24T16:14:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T08:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11690"},"modified":"2014-05-24T16:23:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T08:23:07","slug":"5-luzon-dams-water-level-continues-declining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/24\/5-luzon-dams-water-level-continues-declining\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Luzon dams’ water level continues to decline"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Pantabangan<\/a>
Pantabangan Dam in Nueva Ecija. Wikipedia photo by Susan Corpuz.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite afternoon and evening rain, water levels in five major dams in Luzon continued\u00a0to fall on Friday.<\/p>\n

The five dams include Angat Dam in Bulacan which had its level fall by 0.22 meter from\u00a0Thursday.<\/p>\n

Angat Dam which supplies more than 90 percent of Metro Manila\u2019s water needs had its\u00a0water level down from 177.2 meters on Thursday to 176.98 meters as of 6 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n

Meanhile, the weather bureau has earlier warned the country for a possible onset of El\u00a0Nino toward the end of 2014.<\/p>\n

Four other dams which also had its water level fall in the last 24 hours included:
\n– La Mesa (Quezon City): 77.68 meters from 77.72 meters Thursday
\n– Ambuklao (Benguet): 740.76 meters from 740.79 meters Thursday
\n– San Roque (Pangasinan-Benguet): 236.37 from 236.52 meters Thursday
\n– Magat (Isabela): 166.85 from 167.05 meters Thursday<\/p>\n

While the four dams went declining four other major dams went up, including:
\n– Ipo (Bulacan): 99.77 from 99.67 meters Thursday
\n– Binga (Benguet): 568.06 from 567.59 meters Thursday
\n– Pantabangan (Nueva Ecija): 182.33 from 182.29 meters Thursday
\n– Caliraya (Laguna): 286.21 from 286.2 meters Thursday.<\/p>\n

With reports from Joal Locsin, GMA News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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