Laiban Dam in Brgy Laiban Tanay Rizal

Since more than 50 years, thousands of indigenous, threatened to be displaced from their ancestral lands, are resisting the Laiban dam project, planned to solve a corporate water crisis created by urban Metro Manila

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2015-06-05

Laiban Dam - New Centennial Water Source Project (NCWS), Quezon, Philippines











Since more than 30 years, thousands of indigenous, threatened to be displaced from their ancestral lands, are resisting the Laiban dam project, planned to solve a corporate water crisis created by urban.

Plans to construct a dam in Tanay municipality have been proposed since the late 1970s, during which the first feasibility studies were conducted, partly supported by the World Bank. The project, then termed Manila Water Supply III Project, became soon after known as Laiban dam, due to its location in Barangay (village) Laiban.

It was to be designed and implemented under the responsibility of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) [1]. However, the project became soon controversial due to its impacts on the Sierra Madre primary forest ecosystems and indigenous communities, who opposed the project since the beginning. In the years to come, the Laiban dam was several times approved, deferred, canceled and reapproved




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