Over the TV network, we hear reporters interviewing hydrologists from PAGASA explaining to the public the water levels of the dams. We hear about spilling level, alert level, critical levels, and so on. Who cares about those categories if they can't be understood.
Even reporters, follow these cues from PAGASA, NIA, NPC, etc. by citing this so and so meters of water level of dam... or river stage in Marikina River is now 18 meters. There is something wrong with the reporting because it is not vividly interpreted by a layman. If the goal is to be mobilized by every pronouncement from the reporter, the water level in meters is nonsense. It takes time to understand what the reporter means. Even as technical person, I have to think what those figures mean.
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