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    • Clean river equates good governance 

      Milla, Francisco E. Jr. (DailyGuardian, September 4, 2019, on page 3)
      Most of the highly urbanized cities developed around a river system. This is so for humans needed the ecosystem services that only rivers can provide. Rivers are source of fresh water and help recharge the aquifer, support ...
    • DENR warns vs depleting forest 

      Macahilo, Max N. (The Daily Guardian, April 22, 2015, on page 6)
      Untal called on stakeholders to be aware of the worsening condition not only of the province’s forest and timberland but also of the ocean, seas and marine species and the land and air. The biggest aquifers of the province ...
    • Extreme weather hits tilapia output 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, March 28, 2017, on page A2)
      “The major tilapia producing regions in the Philippines are now experiencing significant impacts from the progressing negative effects of climate change,” according to a report prepared by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic ...
    • For global water crisis, climate may be the last straw 

      Hood, Marlowe (Manila Standard, February 15, 2018, on page A5)
      Before man-made climate change kicked in—and well before "Day Zero" in Cape Town, where taps may run dry in early May—the global water crisis was upon us. Freshwater resources were already badly stressed before heat-trapping ...
    • Humans threaten crucial 'fossil' groundwater - study 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Philippine Star, April 27, 2017, on page B7)
      Human activity risks contaminating pristine water locked underground for millennia and long thought impervious to pollution, said a study Tuesday that warned of a looming threat to the crucial resource. Even at depths of ...
    • Killing watersheds, killing life 

      Dela Paz, Dean (Malaya, March 14, 2017, on page A2)
      The simplest, most graphic and perhaps the most eloquent argument against open pit mining is found, not in the voluminous academic dissertations where arguments encompass the spectrum from bludgeoned biodiversity and ravaged ...
    • LGUs move to integrate climate policies 

      De Vera, Ellalyn B. (Manila Bulletin, December 15, 2016, on page B-9)
      Local governments have integrated climate change policies in their protected landscape and eco-town projects in disaster-prone areas in Marikina City and Rizal. In a multisectoral project together with the Southeast Asian ...
    • The roots of water pollution 

      Señeres, Ike (Panay News, July 19, 2018, on page 14)
      It can be said that God had made a good design so that surface water would be fully filtered first before it reaches the aquifer, but man has abused that design so much, so much so that the filtering system is now overwhelmed ...
    • The roots of water pollution: (Continued from July 19, 2018) 

      Señeres, Ike (Panay News, July 21, 2018, on page 10)
      As it is supposed to be therefore, the mainland town of Malay is supposed to have its own sewerage system, aside from a separate sewerage system that should have been built in Boracay. As it happened, no sewerage systems ...
    • Salty water a new 'reality' as sea pushes inland 

      Thomson Reuters Foundation (The Philippine Star, January 16, 2020, on page B4)
      Thai authorities are trucking drinking water to parts of Bangkok and urging residents to shower less as a worsening drought and rising sea levels have increased salinity, a growing risk faced by many Asian cities, climate ...
    • Study highlights growing toxic brine problem 

      Reuters; Associated Press (AP) (The Philippine Star, January 17, 2019, on page B5)
      The world’s thirst for fresh water is causing a salty problem. Desalination plants around the world are producing enough brine waste to swamp an area the size of Florida with a foot of salty water every year, according to ...
    • Wetlands for our future 

      (The Philippine Star, February 1, 2015, on page B-4)
      Swamps, marshes, lagoons, deltas, and bogs - they are collectively known as wetlands. People see them yet fail to recognize their value. Many do not realize the fact that wetlands are an important ecosystem that supports ...