Your city is experiencing water interruption from time to time, and to ease this crisis, the government plans to enter into a contract with a foreign company for the construction of Php 18.7-billion project called New Hope Dam. This dam will be located in one of the ancestral domain of Dumagats near your city, also, that land has rich biodiversity and because of this project, much of the ecosystem will potentially end up being endangered. What will be your stand about this ecological crisis? Will you pursue the construction of the dam to ease the water shortage in your city or will you respect the rights of the indigenous people over their ancestral land and consider the ecosystem that will be endangered? How will you reconcile development and taking care of the environment and people living in it?

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Your city is experiencing water interruption from time to time, and to ease this crisis, the government plans to enter into a contract with a foreign company for the construction of
Php 18.7-billion project called New Hope Dam. This dam will be located in one of the
ancestral domain of Dumagats near your city, also, that land has rich biodiversity and
because of this project, much of the ecosystem will potentially end up being endangered.
What will be your stand about this ecological crisis? Will you pursue the construction of
the dam to ease the water shortage in your city or will you respect the rights of the
indigenous people over their ancestral land and consider the ecosystem that will be
endangered? How will you reconcile development and taking care of the environment and
people living in it?

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