Water is a vital element of life.
It has provided people with nourishment, livelihood and means to sustain existence. During the second half of the past century, we have seen the government development plan on energy projects arbitrarily use our river systems. Dams were built across the nation to facilitate development but defined only from the perspective of the foreign investors, dam builders, international funding agencies, and the government. Up to now, the Philippine government has been subservient to dictates of foreign monopoly capitalists of liberalization, deregulation and privatization. For this, the Filipino masses especially the peasants and the indigenous peoples were damned to pay a dear price.