The Manila Bay is beautiful as it was and is. Yet it is now enshrouded by a gray haze from an overpopulated city and streets, leaving this once remarkable expanse as a passing memory for us to long for. Its once clean waters are now polluted by streams of trash and its air, as rancid as a decomposing organism. For some, Manila Bay was a source of life and love, where our parents and grandparents would go for dates, where coastal communities would get their fish, and where we could have escaped from the noise and conundrums of life, away from the city we spent all our days in.

Mejia, G. (2020, September 11). Saving Manila Bay. The Manila Times, p. A8.