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What would RCS allocation look like if rainfall were the only input?

This scenario distributes the 199 district-office RCS units (₱835.8 million at ₱4.2 million per unit) in proportion to each province’s average annual rainfall. The province share is divided evenly among its listed DPWH district offices. The rainfall charts appear first; the allocation table follows.

Rainfall record · 1981–2025

Each annual value is the unweighted mean of province annual totals, calculated from complete years only. The local phl-rainfall-subnat-full.csv file supplies the rfh field; values are treated as millimetres and 36 10-day readings are summed to annual totals. This shows historical rainfall patterns, not local water demand.

Annual rainfall across provinces

Typical 10-day rainfall through the year

Province rainfall map

Fill represents average annual rainfall. Hover over a province for its long-term mean, variation, and RCS office count. The source CSV is province-level; it has no municipality observations to support a town-level rainfall estimate.

Lower rainfallMiddle rangeHigher rainfallNo matched boundary/data

Rainfall-weighted unit scenario

The model redistributes the existing district-office pool while keeping the total at 199 whole RCS units. For each province, its share of units is proportional to its 1981–2025 mean annual rainfall; that share is split across the province’s listed DPWH district offices. Largest-remainder rounding keeps the national total at exactly 199 units. Fractional model shares are shown beside the whole-unit scenario.

Current vs rainfall-weighted units by province

Allocation by province

ProvinceMean annual rain (mm)DEOsCurrent unitsExpected unitsSuggested whole unitsChange

District engineering office allocation

Rainfall vs expected RCS units for the selected offices

Each point is one district office; filter the table and this plot together.

RegionProvince proxyGeographic matchDistrict Engineering OfficeMean annual rain (mm)Current unitsExpected unitsSuggested whole unitsCurrent allocationRainfall-only allocationChange

The table assigns province-level rainfall to every DEO listed under that province. It does not assert that the DEO serves only that province or that the province average reflects its service area. One Davao Occidental office uses the Davao Region mean because neither a province rainfall series nor a local boundary is present in the workspace.

How to read this scenario

Annual rainfall depth (rfh treated as millimetres) is used as the sole weight because the request is to model a rainfall-only allocation. That is a transparent starting point for water harvesting potential. A complete needs formula should also include service population, usable roof or catchment area, storage capacity, rainfall seasonality and dry spells, water access, existing RCS sites, and construction cost. A province-level average cannot support a final district budget by itself.

Regional-office and nationwide RCS lines are shown separately from the district pool because the rainfall source cannot assign them to district service areas. They are not redistributed in this scenario.