"We are eating just one meal a day. Children are falling sick, and doctors are miles away."

Flooding has been worsened by crumbling civic infrastructure, clogged drains and uncontrolled urban expansion

  The  project aims to protect about 6.5 million people in the downtown area of 570 sq.km from tidal...

Around 6.5 million people are expected to benefit from the ambitious project

 

Too much pressure on urban infrastructure designed for a fifth of the current population, and too little money

Rains started around midday on Tuesday and did not stop until early Wednesday morning

 

 

Critics however do not think the plan will work and suggest the money be used for better sewers

The $436.65 million project will be developed in three years

 

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Up to 2,138 households in the northern province needed to be moved out of dangerous, prone-to-landslides areas