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The water is not clear. It's a thick, muddy brown, churning stew of earth, with rotting water lily stems, debris, and forgotten things. It creeps up silently at first, a cold, wet kiss on your ankles, a trickle that grows into ...

As a country lying directly on the path of the typhoon belt in the northwestern Pacific Ocean as well as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines is no stranger to natural disasters. Up to 60 percent of its land area and ...