Nearly 18 percent of the 5,714 barangays surrounding Manila Bay have complied with a directive from the interior department to participate in a drive to clean the polluted bay. The interior department is preparing show-cause orders to the chiefs of some 1,000 barangays which ignored the directive, said Martin Diño, interior undersecretary for barangays affairs. The barangays are in Bulacan, Bataan, and Pampanga in Central Luzon region; Rizal, Laguna, and Cavite in the Southern Tagalog region; and in the National Capital Region.

Africa, R. (2019, May 3). '1,000 barangays ignored Manila Bay cleanup drive'. Malaya Business Insight, pp. B1, B3.