Browsing Malaya by Subject "water quality"

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    • 5 keen on hydro power projects in Laguna Lake 

      Macapagal, Jed (Malaya, July 17, 2017, on page A3)
      The Department of Energy (DOE) has accepted at least six proposals to put up hydropower projects in the Laguna lake with a combined capacity of up to 2,000 megawatts (MW). Marasigan noted the proposals for hydro projects ...

    • ADB gives Pasig River rehabilitation a failing grade 

      Celis, Angela Lorraine (Malaya, December 28, 2010, on page A7)
      A 15-year program which started in 1999 to rehabilitate the Pasig River was rated unsuccessful by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). "The program was too ambitious, and its implementation arrangements too complicated to be ...

    • Conglomerate commits to rehab river for P1B 

      (Malaya, March 7, 2019, on page A3)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said its rehabilitation efforts for Manila Bay got a major boost after San Miguel Corp. (SMC) agreed to clean up the Tulahan-Tinajeros river system, one of the ...

    • Fish cage operations in Taal allowed to resume 

      (Malaya, February 6, 2020, on page A2)
      Fish cage operators can now resume feeding their fish stock in Taal Lake as the government said water quality has improved. Agriculture Secretary William Dar, citing tests from January 14 to 30 conducted by the Bureau of ...

    • LGUs urged to help in Pasig River clean-up 

      Africa, Raymond (Malaya, March 20, 2017, on page B2)
      Interior Secretary Ismael “Mike” Sueno urged local government units (LGUs) to do their part in cleaning up the Pasig River. Sueno called on the cities of Manila, Makati, Mandaluyong, Pasig and Taguig, and the municipality ...

    • Manila Bay cleanup a unifying cause 

      (Malaya, September 11, 2019, on page B4)
      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 ...

    • Maynilad adopts 6.6 ha. for mangrove rehab 

      (Malaya, January 23, 2015, on page A10)
      West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) has adopted five sites totaling 6.6 hectares (ha) in the Cavite province for a mangrove rehabilitation program under its "Plant for Life Program." "Plant ...

    • MPIC joins Manila Bay rehab program 

      (Malaya, May 24, 2019, on page A7)
      Maynilad Water Services Inc. and Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for the Adopt-an Estero Program under the ...

    • Pasig river gets P50M mangrove-planting boost 

      de Leon, Angela Lopez (Malaya, March 5, 2013, on page B8)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources yesterday signed an agreement with the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission for a P50-million mangrove-planting project along the banks of a 19-kilometer stretch of the ...

    • Science comes to endangered Lake Sebu 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, October 12, 2018, on page A2)
      A new species of freshwater crab was discovered last year in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato. The Sundathelphusa miguelito crab is "very likely to be endemic in Mindanao, and further study," says Jose C. E. Mendoza, a lecturer ...

    • Water concessionaire breaks ground on P2B sewage treatment facility 

      (Malaya, March 8, 2019, on page A3)
      Maynilad Water Services inc. broke ground to construct a P2.05-billion sewage treatment plant (STP) in Las Pinas that will further boost sewarage coverage and to reduce pollution loading in Manila Bay. The Manila west zone ...