THE perennial flooding in Bulacan coastal areas is seen to be resolved by implementing nature-based solutions, thus the result of the briefing led by the provincial government of Bulacan (PGB) with the representatives of the Economic Affairs Section of the Netherlands Embassy.

Matthijs Zijlmans, project manager for Partners for Water Program of Netherlands Enterprise Agency, identified that the main contributors to flooding in North Manila Bay include sediment extraction, land subsidence, fluvial flooding, climate change, and erosion and sediment shortage, storm surge, the decline of natural habitat, and population expansion.