After Boracay Island, it's the turn of Manila Bay. "I am determined to start the rehabilitation of Manila Bay immediately, possibly to start [in the] second week of January," Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu said on Monday during his department's last flag ceremony for the year. He added that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) would temporarily be reorganized, for the purpose of undertaking rehabilitation efforts, in order to "reduce the coliform to a level where we can swim again."

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