That sinking feeling: A woman pumping water from a well, the village’s only source of fresh water, in the submerged coastal village Sitio Pariahan, about 17km north of Manila. — Reuters
SITIO PARIAHAN: Danica Martinez, 16, grew up in a house that grows taller every few years.
Her father raises the stilts of their bamboo hut so water from the sea doesn’t reach the floor. They live in Sitio Pariahan, a coastal village in the Philippines that was once an island, and is now without land.
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