BAGUIO CITY, April 10 -- Residents in Sagada, Mountain Province are reusing water as a conservation measure as they look into long-term solutions to mitigate the effects of the dry spell.

"We are feeling the effects of the heat, with water from our spring sources decreasing. We have asked our residents to save and reuse water so that we do not exhaust our sources," Mayor Felicito Dula said in a phone interview on Wednesday.

He said residents are using water used from washing clothes to water their plants or flush their toilets.

Residents source their water from natural springs, through pipes connected to the houses.

Sagada is a popular tourist destination in northern Luzon, with most of the houses being used as homestays and inns, to ...