It has been eight months since the Duterte administration, particularly the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), embarked on the almost impossible task of cleaning Manila Bay and making its waters safe again for swimming and fishing. DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu has created an inter-agency task force to draft and implement the Manila Bay Action Plan, a well-funded, ambitious program to clean the bay of garbage and other solid pollutants and bring down the level of coliform contamination in this once scenic body of water.

Manila Bay cleanup a unifying cause. (2019, September 11). Malaya Business Insight, p. B4.