The grandson of one of Jose Rizal's students in Dapitan reminds Filipinos that even US Army engineers praised the water system that the national hero helped build during his exile there. RizalDay
, Philippines – Dapitan’s two-kilometer water system, an internationally known engineering marvel that Jose Rizal helped build, “is now gone because did not bother to preserve it.”
Jose was among Rizal’s 24 students in Dapitan and included in his memoirs the years spent with the polyglot author, doctor, scientist, teacher, and farmer, who also organized the town’s fisherfolk. The water system was actually a community effort with design and funding by the Spanish government, labor by Dapitanons and surveying and layout plan by Rizal, who took up Land Surveying and Assessment at the Ateneo de Municipal de Manila.On June 12, 1894, Jesuit Father Antonio Obach of Dapitan Mission sent a letter to his superior stating that the proposed water system was approved by Eulogio Despujol, Spanish Governor General in the Philippines.
“Brother arrived on April 25… kiln was erected for baking bricks, gutters, pipes and everything needed for the project. For their part, Dapitanons drew up an act promising volunteer work one day a month,” Obach said in his letter.
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