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Manila Bay cleaner in 6 months- DENR
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Monday said the waters of Manila Bay would be cleaner in six months. The bay’s rehabilitation began in December last year. Benny Antiporda, DENR undersecretary ...
- January 15, 2019
Pasig River
Since Rajah Sulayman’s rule before the Spanish colonizers arrived in our land in the 16th century, the Pasig River was already a lively and bustling waterway — a source of aquatic wealth, commerce, and cultural influences. ...
- October 3, 2019
Manila Bay rehab begins: 3 restaurants ordered closed
Thousands of volunteers descended on Manila Bay on Sunday, the start of a massive rehabilitation scheme that aims to restore the bay’s “beauty and bounty.” As the clean-up unfolded, the Laguna Lake Development Authority ...
- January 28, 2019
Manila Bay is an opportunity
I am very impressed by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources as well as the Department of the Interior and Local Government and the Department of Tourism joining hands to tackle the rehabilitation of Manila ...
- January 18, 2019
DENR closes 47 firms in Central Luzon
A total of 47 establishments has been closed down in Bulacan and Bataan since Friday for non-compliance with environmental laws and polluting the river system leading to the Manila Bay. Lormelyn Claudio, Region 3 Environmental ...
- January 29, 2019
DENR chief orders Puerto Galera rehab
Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has ordered the rehabilitation of Puerto Galera in Mindoro Oriental to follow in the footsteps of Boracay in Aklan and Manila Bay in a bid to protect and preserve the country’s prime tourist ...
- December 4, 2019
Manila Bay clean-up: ‘Broken windows’ theory on a grand scale
It is not an exaggeration to say that President Duterte’s dramatically termed “Battle for Manila Bay,” his grand project to clean up what has been the polluted-landscape symbol of the Philippines, will be a watershed in ...
- January 30, 2019