The drafted bill which was presented to the BOT on Tuesday, November 9 during its 14th regular meeting, seeks the creation of Lake Mainit Development Authority as the management body of Lake Mainit Watershed, the main ecosystem that flows into the Lake Mainit from the provinces of Agusan del Norte and Surigao del Norte then flows out to the Butuan Bay and its coastal areas.
Lake Mainit is the fourth largest lake in the Philippines and second largest in Mindanao, considered as the deepest and cleanest in the country, straddles the southern part of Surigao del Norte and Agusan del Norte.
The diverse ecosystem and abundant resources of Lake Mainit had been commonly shared by the four lakeshore municipalities of Alegria, Mainit, Kitcharao and Jabonga, with the two upstream and headwater municipalities of Sison and Tubod, and with the downstream municipalities of Santiago and Tubay.
Lake Mainit's watershed is composed of five ecosystems namely: upland, lowland, rivers, lake and coastal areas. The sustainability of the lake and its environment has been challenged by the increasing demand of the growing population in the area.
The bill also emphasized the need for the establishment of the LMDA as an institutional model of an ecosystem based development planning and management, to ensure that sustainable development, as the main strategy, would preserve the natural environment of the Lake Mainit for future generations. (PIA-Caraga)
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for and on behalf of the out-of-towners who frequent this site and live abroad, it will be deeply appreciated if the draft or whatever Act you want to call it, be published/posted in this Blog for others to read, watch, assess, comment, propose, observe for it's eventual outcome so it can be discussed and given some thoughts (prior and after) for the sake of the Lake.....for one, it is bounded or under two separate provincial jurisdiction whose (naturally) self preserving interest is a lump-in-the-throat issue (understandably so) and harmony and equity becomes a bone of contention in the not to distant future and whoever is on either the giving and receiving end will stand its ground and not compromise.....secondly, the "BOT"s as i read the posting are transitional and co-terminus to their respective political tenure and whose varying views - either political, personal, business and contrary to what the LMDA -is/was hoped and expected to become. i pretty much discussed this in length with the 'pidjanga website' some years back (check the web's archives or the web's owner/author) and to create the "alliance" or the "Authority" has to be carefully planned and perhaps studied in relation to other worldwide pre-existing organization so as to rectify, address, add or delete, propose in a referendum, pass as a ballot measure, integrate or compound as a bill (legislative body) and identify its weaknesses and flaws and make the necessary and appropriate remedial actions to make it robust and infallible...in other words, succesful and not a "ningas-cogon" white elephant endeavor...
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