This can often mean shortages of rice, electricity, fuel, and fish for the rural areas of the country. Everyday I see these pressures. Not only do I come to understand these pressures better, but I actually feel them. They effect everyone who lives nearby. If a logging company harvests an area of the forest, the river floods, and my community is stranded for days.
Clean water is hard to find.
I watch the water near my house rise, and no fish can be caught. Last year, during one particular flood, two of my friend's cows were carried out to sea in one of these floods. They were never found. Much of the Philippines, including the area around my house, remains a paradise. There is something beautiful I notice each day.