MANILA, Aug. 29 -- The Quezon City government has sounded the alarm over the more than PHP14 billion worth of flood control projects in the city, which were carried without permits and coordination from the local government.

At a press conference on Friday, Mayor Joy Belmonte expressed frustrations over what she said were anomalous flood control projects in the city, citing an audit of 93 flood control projects and 1,652 Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) projects from 2021 to 2025.

"Bilyon ang nasasayang na pera dito (Billions of pesos were wasted on these). If there was really that real political will to resolve flooding, I believe that this amount that has been wasted would already have been sufficient towards addressing ...