#Dapitan

The one located within Rizal's property in Dapitan (that is, Talisay), however, appears to be a smaller water system which they connected with the main at Linao (Linaw). Perhaps coincidentally, about the time Rizal was exiled to Dapitan, a proposal to build a water system in Dapitan was already approved by the Spanish government, as Father Antonio Obach writes: The deed was immediately drawn up and approved by the authorities afterwards. Rizal arrived in Dapitan on July 17, 1892, a few days before the approval was made. Lighting up the streets Using coconut oil as fuel, Rizal initiated the installation of street lamps in Dapitan, making the rural town light up at night, perhaps for the first time in their modern history. Another kind of light We would have to go back a few years before Dapitan to examine another technological work. If one were to trade places with Rizal, an exiled nationalist whose actions were monitored by the Spanish government, occasional windfalls like his victory at the lottery (half of which he supposedly invested in purchasing property in Dapitan) might appear to be quite trivial. Read more in our articles including "Rizal Tech? An exiled innovator and the modernization of Dapitan" and "Infinix HOT 70: Coming in HOT Under P8,000!".