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Water is mobile and it occurs as both stock and flow. Surface water tends to flow, evaporate, transpire and seep while groundwater exists as stock subject to recharge flows. In some parts of The Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), consumers are expending higher amounts on water consumption. For example in Baguio City, water generation and distribution attracted business opportunities due to the lack of a structured water system. Higher water cost can be attributed to expensive water generation and distribution cost which may include water storage and conveyance. Read the rest of this entry »

Baguio City is the only purely urban locale in the Cordillera. Though quite prosperous due in part perhaps to its urban setting, some poverty do lurk in the area. The City Government of Baguio, through the City social welfare office and the City planning office, sought to address such poverty by embarking on a poverty reduction action plan. However, said plan needs baseline information on the poverty situation of the City. The poverty mapping effort of the National Statistical Coordination Board provided exactly just that – a baseline poverty scenario. Read the rest of this entry »