Mindanao has been experiencing rotating brownouts that last from 5-8 hours a day, almost everyday, for the last month or so. This has been attributed to the 'unexpectedly' low level of water at Lake Lanao and the onset of El Nino.
First of all, aren't we supposed to be in the age of technology, where ultimately the temperature of the water in the lake can be accurately measured down to the 5th decimal point? How could the scientists and technicians fail to see that the lake's water level was becoming too low to sufficiently produce enough energy for the coming months?
Secondly, why can the local electric cooperatives in the cities work out a schedule for their brownouts while here in the province we have to accept the power outages anytime and without warning? Is life out here different from city living? Are appliances plugged into country households better equipped with anti-brownout protection than city ones?
And third, may I ask what the Party List can do that hasn't already been (or tried to) done? It seems to me that all these crises could be solved by simple means (like scheduling and if people were just in it to do their jobs right) but because we live in a Third World Country run by politicians, everything becomes 'hard' to do without a certain amount of 'slippery' money inviolved.
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