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Maynilad's ₱1.7-B sewage treatment plant now operational
The ₱1.7-B sewage treatment plant (STP) of West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) in San Dionisio, Parañaque City is now operational. The new Parañaque Water Reclamation Facility can treat up to ...
- January 23, 2019
PRRD’s next project: Make Manila Bay as clean as Boracay
The government could close down establishments polluting Manila Bay as part of its planned rehabilitation effort, Malacañang said Tuesday. Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo said President Duterte is prepared to show ...
- January 9, 2019
Gov’t urged to craft Benham Rise protection framework
The Philippine government was urged yesterday to create a protection framework for Benham Rise, an undersea territory east of Luzon brimming with natural resources, to prevent foreign vessels from trespassing. Oceana, the ...
- March 23, 2017
Cagayan River dredging, planting of 200 M trees proposed
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu has proposed the immediate dredging of Cagayan River and planting of some 200 million tree seedlings on low-lying agricultural areas in Cagayan ...
- November 17, 2020
No changing Boracay's rehabilitation timetable
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is rushing to complete the rehabilitation of Boracay Island in Aklan within the six-month timetable, according to DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu. Cimatu was reacting ...
- July 9, 2018
After Boracay, rehabilitate Laguna de Bay, Manila Bay
Long before he acted decisively on the “cesspool” that, he said, Boracay’s waters had become, President Duterte had singled out Laguna de Bay as a body of water that demanded immediate government attention and action. ...
- September 30, 2018
Duterte approves six-month shutdown of Boracay
Boracay, the country's best known holiday island, will be totally closed down to tourists for the next six months over concerns that the once idyllic white-sand resort has become a "cesspool" tainted by dumped sewage.
- April 6, 2018