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DENR: Manila Bay establishments should connect to STPs
All establishments within the Manila Bay region are now required to connect to existing sewer lines or set up their own sewerage treatment plants (STP) to ensure that wastewater is properly collected and treated. Department ...
- April 22, 2019
The battle to clean up Manila Bay finally underway
The “Battle for Manila Bay” will be won in seven years, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said Monday. Seven years is such a long time. It is six and a half years longer than it took to clean up ...
- January 31, 2019
Manila Bay's water quality improving a year after rehab
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said water quality of major outfalls directly draining to Manila Bay significantly improved, a year after the previously polluted watershed started to be rehabilitated. ...
- January 25, 2020
PH needs foreign help in solving plastic pollution
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) should address the plastic pollution in the country by seeking help from other nations that have the technology to solve it. This was pointed out by Surigao del ...
- June 21, 2018
Negros ethanol plant suspended over fishkill
Environment authorities suspended the operations of an ethanol plant of Universal Robina Sugar Milling Corp. (URSMC) after finding that its untreated wastewater caused fishkill that economically dislocated 200 fishing ...
- August 13, 2015
Live coral cover found in Manila Bay
Experts and researchers of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) have discovered live coral cover in the Manila Bay, buoying hopes that the heavily-polluted body of water could still be restored to its ...
- April 30, 2019
DENR to ban single-use plastic in Boracay
The government could soon ban the single use of plastic items in Boracay Island. Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu is “seriously considering” this to address the growing garbage problem in the island. ...
- June 14, 2018
The same steely political will to clean up Manila Bay
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has set its sights on the coastal areas around Manila Bay as its next target for a massive cleanup after Boracay. Early this month, Secretary Roy Cimatu told ...
- January 11, 2019
Battle of Manila Bay to be won in 7 years - DENR
The rehabilitation of Manila Bay will be in three phases in the next seven years, which means this will go beyond the term of President Duterte who vowed to make the bay as clean as the world-famous Boracay island. Environment ...
- January 29, 2019
Keeping the faith despite unfinished work in Boracay
Six months ago, Boracay Island was closed to tourism activities to pave the way for its rehabilitation. President Duterte had then described the country's premier beach destination as a "cesspool", referring to the huge ...
- October 21, 2018