Quezon City builds rainwater systems to prepare for El Niño drought
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Quezon City officials have installed 122 rainwater collection stations across the Philippines capital to prepare for an expected drought in 2027.
These stations are located in 115 schools and four government buildings, providing a combined storage capacity of 1.9 million liters. The city government also constructed two basketball courts featuring underground detention basins. Each basin holds a volume of water equal to nearly half of an Olympic-sized swimming pool and functions as a flood control measure.
These courts include water-harvesting tanks that hold up to 15,000 liters of filtered water for cleaning and irrigation. Additionally, a retention pond at Quezon Memorial Circle stores 651 cubic meters of water to supply the park's plants and manage flooding. The local government is building three more rainwater harvesting systems with a total capacity of 1.2 million liters. Officials say these systems use covered tanks and filtration to prevent mosquitoes from breeding.
While the city builds infrastructure, the national government is also responding to the weather phenomenon. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. advised citizens to collect rainwater in pails, and the Department of Social Welfare and Development began distributing filtration kits to vulnerable areas.
