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    • Boracay's groundwater still contaminated- DENR, DOH 

      Yap, Tara (Manila Bulletin, August 14, 2018, on page 10)
      Despite the government’s ongoing rehabilitation program, the groundwater of several barangays in world-famous Boracay Island remains contaminated, based on initial findings of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB), an ...
    • Burnham Lake water safe for fish breeding 

      Keith, Gaby (The Manila Times, September 22, 2022, on page A8)
      City Environment and Parks Management Officer (Cepmo) Rhenan Diwas said the results of water tests done at Burnham Park Lake have proven that it is safe for raising fish. Diwas said a water sampling was done at the lake ...
    • Clean-up Result 

      Giron, Anthony; De Vera, Ellalyn B. (Manila Bulletin, August 15, 2013, on page 13)
      The waters of this coastal town, also called Salinas, is now 95 percent oil spill free, and that the slick-struck fishing villages are getting back on their feet with the development, the municipal government said Wednesday. ...
    • DENR-EMB to conduct water samplings on coal spill site 

      Conserva, Louine Hope (The Daily Guardian, January 6, 2015, on page 2-7)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB-6) will conduct water sampling on the area in Antique province where a barge filled with coal ran aground last month. DENR-EMB ...
    • Ecological time bomb ticks at Macajalar Bay ... everyone in the area points to everyone else as the culprit 

      Reyes, Lina Sagaral (BusinessWorld, September 21, 1999, on page 15)
      A palpable gloom hangs over this coastal community in Northern Mindanao, where a murky green growth in the waters has been an unwelcome annual visitor since 1994. Smelly and ever-spreading, the green blight that appears ...
    • Experts to test oil leak-hit seawater in Banago 

      (Panay News, March 2, 2016, on page 16)
      Seawater samples for laboratory testing were taken from areas in Barangay Banago affected by the oil leak from a pipeline of Petron Corp. Negros Island Region's Office of Environment Monitoring and Enforcement Division ...
    • Fisherfolk seek urgent government help on fish kill 

      (Manila Bulletin, July 9, 2015, on page 15)
      Hundreds of fisherfolk from the coastal town of Manjuyod and Bais City in this province are asking government for a thorough investigation of the fish kill in waters here, which they claim has gravely affected their source ...
    • Possible coal, oil spill in Antique to be checked 

      Yap, Tara (Manila Bulletin, January 7, 2015, on page 8)
      A team from the Environmental Management Bureau in Western Visayas ( EMB- 6), which is under the regional office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-6) has been sent to Antique to check on any ...
    • Reclamation work in Masinloc halted 

      Ocampo, Karl (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 10, 2018, on page B6)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has suspended the expansion activities of Alpha Water Realty Services Corp. (AWRSC), operator of the Masinloc coal-fired plant in Zambales. This after the DENR ...
    • Red tide still up in Pilar- expert 

      Mijares, Ralph John (Panay News, November 12, 2015, on page 5)
      Shellfishes in Pilar, Capiz, still have toxicity beyond the regulatory limit, an indication that red tide remains in the municipality, according an aquaculturist here. The regulatory limit for shellfish toxicity is 60 ...
    • Water from Butuanon River tests negative for poliovirus 

      JJL (SunStar Philippines, April 14, 2020, on page 3)
      More than 200 water samples taken from the Butuanon River in Mandaue City tested negative for the poliovirus. After initial reports that the Butuanon River was contaminated with the poliovirus, the Metropolitan Cebu Water ...