INTRODUCTION

The World Bank (2017) the Philippines ranks third among countries most in danger for

disasters, as well as floods, storms, and earthquakes. Within the past thirty years, over three

hundred sixty disasters struck the Philippines, with a complete death toll of thirty-three thousand

individuals that affected one hundred twenty million individuals. Typhoons and floods are the

foremost devastating in terms of their economic and social impact, accounting for eighty percent

of all deaths, ninety percent of the whole variety of affected individuals, and ninety two percent

of the whole economic impact.

There have been recent floods and impacts around the world and threats to

sustainable human settlement development are becoming all too frequent. In order to

identify solution for the sub-stainable growth. Over the year, the number of events, sizes,

region impacted and adverse socio-economic effects increased. The livelihoods, policies and

programs of urban residents. State and other problems have been unsustainable. Urban

plannings must be practical, and the urban habit must be sustainable, otherwise global

warming would occur; flood effects in the area could be more extreme. (Emberga, 2014).

According to B-Air (2018) Flooding happens throughout the world for various reasons,

There are several human causes of flooding, including poorly designed infrastructure. There are

also natural reasons flooding happens. Natural flooding can also occur; Heavy rains, overflowing

rivers, damaged reservoirs, industrial drainage basins, storm surges, tsunamis, plant shortages,

snow and ice melting. These are only a few examples of specific flood causes. A catastrophic flood

event merely because of an obstructed or broken pipe and other storming problems.
 In addition, The rains can not be prevented by humans or the surface water can not break.

These are natural events, and there are ways of avoiding them. City planning Before building

buildings are built, it is vital that builders get permission. This means that there is no blocking of

waterways. Drainage systems must also be covered with items that affect them and kept free of

them. This means that water can run fast when it rains and minimizes any likelihood of urban

flooding. Drainage systems should also be sealed to prevent litters. (Ghana, n.d.).

Flood is a major cause of damage in most countries and the Philippines is one of them.

The researchers thought of making something that could alert people, particularly when their

live is on line, to know what is happening in their area. The flood can be viewed as something

that passes effortlessly, but the flood can be so disasterous that its life, family and emotional

health can be destroyed. The people facing death and not enough time to save their belongings

and lives in the minds of those high-school researchers is because they have never been

conscious of the flood that has just rushed in. And because the researchers were aware of this

situation in the Philippines, they wanted to find a solution to inform the people and evacuate

before things get out of hand. The flood alarm developed by these researchers may aid in this

type of situation. It consists of an LED light, an audio / speaker and the water sensor to view and

detect water levels. The LED light and the audio speaker work on all these materials in union

when even a small amount of water is detected. It can help schools protect student lives and can

start classes at an early stage, so that everyone can feel safe when introducing this product at

the school. (Charlotte, et al., 2018).

The present matter that this project is concerned with is that, many places are

experiencing flooding and not only the private and public schools in the Valenzuela city area but
 also other places, villages and roads nearby. so senior high school students in grade 12

decided to create a flood prevention project that would not only alarm when flooded but would

measure flood levels depending on the selected height and automatically send a message to the

authority when reaching designated flood level.

This leads to the researchers’ project: Flood measuring alarm, which will be applicable

to the School, roads as well as homes, beneficiaries will be the area of Valenzuela and Metro

Manila as well as the netizens. it will be requisite because some areas in Valenzuela and metro

manila continue to experience flooding as knowledge from (Cid.asia, 2018).