CEBU CITY: Mayor Michael Rama has slammed the City Council for not declaring 31 drought-hit mountain barangays (villages) under a state of calamity.

The council held two separate executive sessions on the scarcity of water in the upland villages on May 4 and 6, but they still did not declare the mountain barangays under a state of calamity.

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