Laguna Lakeshore Road Network feared to cause more frequent flooding

Belen Arevalo, a resident of Barangay Malaban in Biñan, Laguna, is used to flooding in her village whenever the monsoon season comes.

It takes her family 15 to 30 minutes by boat when it’s flooded to get from their house to the dry road for their market runs. In her household, she does most of the errands as her husband is constrained by limited movement after suffering a stroke.

But it wasn’t always like this in Malaban, a lakeshore community facing Laguna de Bay.

“When I moved to Barangay Malaban [in 1986]...