Browsing by Author "Mana-ay, Edgar"

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    • Beach nourishment - an old practice 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (DailyGuardian, September 21, 2020, on page 4)
      A lot of public brouhaha and sneaking suspicion are being created by the ongoing P389-million beach nourishment project at a segment of Manila Bay along Dewey Boulevard from the US Embassy towards the south side until the ...

    • The hard and soft water story 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (The Daily Guardian, October 29, 2018, on page 4)
      Water hardness is the traditional measure of the capacity of water to react with soap and describes the ability of water to bind soap to form lather (ang pagbukal sang habon), a chemical reaction detrimental to the washing ...

    • Healing the water shed 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (The Daily Guardian, April 22, 2015, on page 4-5)
      The metro Iloilo water district (MIWD) board is correct in focusing it's concern on the watershed as the main source of its potable water supply. The first thing fisherman engineering student is taught is to define understand ...

    • Hoover Dam 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (The Daily Guardian, April 3, 2018, on page 4)
      A stay in Las Vegas is not complete without visiting the historic and world-famous Hoover Dam which is only about 40 kilometers from The Strip. Lessons can be learned from this mega-dam in view of the start “kuno” of the ...

    • Lessons from the ongoing Manila Bay rehab 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (The Daily Guardian, February 26, 2019, on page 4)
      For almost 100 years, Manila Bay has been abused, misused, and mistreated by Filipinos living around the bay, from Cavite to Manila to Bulacan. Just like our Iloilo Rivers and seas, it has been a symbol of environmental ...

    • Life-choking plastic garbage 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (DailyGuardian, September 16, 2019, on page 6-7)
      Since a lot of plastic items we use are low cost and disposable, we create an awful lot of plastic trash. Hundreds of tons of plastic rubbish have been removed during the cleanup of Manila Bay and this is just along the ...

    • Oil and gas from Recto Bank by China 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (DailyGuardian, September 23, 2019, on page 4-5)
      Both Manila and Beijing has confirmed that Chinese companies will explore, drill, and exploit oil and gas deposits at Recto Bank! This shallow part of the West Philippine Sea (WPS) is only 80 nautical miles (nm) from the ...

    • Recto Bank the only replacement to Malampaya 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (DailyGuardian, July 1, 2019, on page 5)
      Recto Bank (formerly known as Reed Bank) is a large table mount (a flat-topped mountain range under the sea sometimes also called seamounts or guyots) in the South China Sea covering an area of 8,866 square kilometers (sq. ...

    • Recto Bank the only replacement to Malampaya 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (DailyGuardian, July 1, 2019, on page 5)
      It's all over the newspapers the past two months that natural gas supply from the Malampaya offshore source in Palawan seas will run out in four years time. For the past 45 years, natural gas from the Malampaya gas fields ...

    • Revenge of the river – 2 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (DailyGuardian, June 17, 2019, on page 4-5)
      In my first article, this writer pointed out that it is the people of Metro Iloilo who suffered the most because of the molasses contamination fiasco of Jalaur River caused by the criminal act of a sugar central. This ...

    • The UN climate change approach 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (The Daily Guardian, January 14, 2019, on page 4)
      Many coral reefs “bleach” (lose the algae that live in symbiotic partnership with them) when sea temperature rise. For the ignorant, this is a dying episode because of the change in color, which is far from the truth. The ...