CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- Senatorial hopeful Leyte Representative Martin Romualdez recently stressed that technology is a great tool in disaster preparedness and natural calamities such as earthquake, typhoons and floods.
Romualdez, who personally experienced the onslaught of Super Typhoon Yolanda in 2013, said that natural calamities cannot be "postponed" but their risks can be reduced through preparedness.
"It is a way of information dissemination. Many people nowadays are more active in social media than on TV and radios and it is where they pick up information," Romualdez said.
He urged the agencies involved, and the whole government as well, to engage in technology in alerting the public of the current and forthcoming events in the country.
"When the people are aware, they themselves will prepare for the expected occurrence," he said.
Romualdez also cited the value of technology in establishing flood mitigation projects in a disaster-prone country like the Philippines.
Initiation of serious studies, organization of plans and framework and enactment of the projects are now made easier with the use of modern technology, Romualdez said.
"With the kind of technology we have now, there is nothing impossible," he added.
"Technology is our present and we need to embrace it," he concluded.