Manila Bay is worse off a decade after a Supreme Court decision ordering local government units and government agencies to rehabilitate it, and officials of LGUs surrounding the bay may face administrative charges soon. In an interview with the ABS-CBN News Channel, Environment Undersecretary Sherwin Rigor said authorities began checking sewage pipes that drain into the “very polluted” bay with an average 330 million most probable number (mpn) of fecal coliform for every liter. That figure is 3.3 million times above the standard 100 mpn that is ideal for swimming, Rigor told ANC. The most polluted part is near the Manila Yacht Club—one of the 12 outfalls in the Manila Bay—where the coliform level is at 1.3 billion mpn, he added.

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