Browsing by Subject "industrial pollution"

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    • Dead rivers: The cost of Bangladesh's garment-driven growth 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, June 22, 2022, on page A7)
      Bangladeshi ferryman Kalu Molla began working on the Buriganga river before the patchwork of slums on its banks gave way to garment factories — and before its waters turned pitch black. The 52-year-old has constant cough, ...

    • JICA-backed Maynilad’s Parañaque wastewater treatment facility launched 

      (Manila Bulletin, January 27, 2019, on page B-3)
      The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) lauded the completion of the wastewater treatment facility of the Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (MWSI) in Parañaque City, saying it will help address water pollution in ...

    • Laguna de Bay in grave peril 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 5, 2017, on page A1)
      Bayani Enriquez has happy childhood memories of swimming and fishing in Laguna de Bay in the 1980s. Now, the lake is weighed down by shanties, fish pens, illegal reclamation, industrial pollution, sewage and sedimentation. ...

    • Negros-Panay bridge threat to endangered dolphins -- study 

      Garcia, Mark L. (Manila Bulletin, March 15, 2018, on page B-8)
      These dolphins are known to reside in the coastal waters of Bago City and Pulupandan and were declared as a protected marine area in the latter through the partnerships of these academic institutions and the local government ...

    • Priests, nuns get hands dirty for PH rivers 

      Enano, Jhesset O.; Perez, Cedrix (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 7, 2018, on page A8)
      Amid rapid urban development in Quezon City, the San Francisco River has stood as silent witness to the changes that people had wrought in the area. Decades ago, Franciscan priests followed its banks as they trekked from ...

    • Saving biodiversity at Verde Island Passage 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 21, 2018, on page A18)
      Casting a fishing line with a coral sinker and a plastic-bottle reel, children as young as 8 years old catch their next meal from the pebbled shore of Barangay San Andres here. Most of the women are at home, raising hogs ...

    • Still no room for small fishers as pens remain in Laguna de Bay 

      Cinco, Maricar; Celis, Nikon (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 20, 2017, on page A9)
      Behind some idle fishing boats, Danny Machado, 62, scans Laguna de Bay from Barangay Cuyab here. Machado is starting to grow impatient over hectares after hectares of fish pens that he blames for his dwindling catch. “I’m ...