How Climate Change and Land Reclamation Are Consuming Philippine Coastal Villages

The second major factor, and one that is particularly devastating in the context of the Manila Bay, is the massive scale of land reclamation projects. These large-scale developments, often promoted as solutions for urban congestion and economic growth, are fundamentally altering the bay's natural dynamics. By creating new land, these projects are changing the flow of water and sediment, disrupting natural drainage pathways, and effectively forcing the tide further inland. The result is a man-made exacerbation of a climate-induced problem.