About 220,000 squatter families will be displaced by the Manila Bay rehabilitation project and will be relocated to Central Luzon and the Calabarzon region, Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año said Tuesday. “Of course, there will be resistance at first, but we have to do this because they really should not be living in the estero,” Año said in an interview with GMA News. “They should be able to understand.” The Department of Environment and Natural Resources will kick off the rehabilitation project to reduce the coliform bacteria in the bay and make it swimmable by December.

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