Cebu City Vice Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia is proposing to create an ordinance that will charge households and business establishments a service fee for the treatment of wastewater before it is discharged to the city's major rivers and the sea. During the second leg of the Cebu Water Summit on March 28, 2023 at Bai Hotel Cebu, Garcia said the high level of coliform in the seven major rivers and waterways of the city was very concerning. He said there were rivers (which he did not specify) in the city that yielded 20,000 most probable number (MPN) per 100 milliliters (ml) to 20 million MPN per 100 ml of coliform concentration from the allowable 200 MPN/100 ml in accordance with the standards set by the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB).

Cebu City eyes service fee to fund over P200M sewage treatment. (2023, March 29). SunStar Cebu, p. 2.