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    Manila Bay rehabilitation

    Following the successful rehabilitation of Boracay the next target is Manila Bay.

    The target is to reduce the shit reading of the water from 330 million to 100 (a percentage that is too big for me to bother to work out). That would make it safe to swim in. Target is one year but will likely take longer.

    Hotels and other establishments have been told to stop breaking the law by discharging sewage and other waste direct into the water or face closure.

    Over 100 elected officials are facing criminal cases for failing to enact environmental laws

    Around 1 million illegal settlers (squatters) will be relocated to new housing with livelihood assistance.

    All that is happening, like Boracay, is enforcing the existing environmental laws and punishing corruption that allowed the breaches. It will probably requirenew laws on plastics though.

    P.S. Manila already has casinos.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hullexile:
    P.S. Manila already has casinos.
    Yea but they are shitty (pun intended)

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    Would be good to see existing laws enforced and cleaning up the water quality. I'm unfamiliar with Manila, so let me lay out my maybe false assumptions:

    What can be done about all the plastic waste heading into streams and then into the bay?

    I think that there are a lot of slums and homeless people in Manila, who would not have access to sewage and probably don't use or have garbage collection. Are you saying all instances of people like this are going to be given housing, and thus the environment can be cleaned up? How has that happened?

    Edit: I was just browsing google maps to see if I could see some images of the Bay, and this was the first picture I came across. Holy crap, it's Central on a Sunday! https://goo.gl/maps/5pFEUeLjwJo


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    Quote Originally Posted by Elegiaque:
    Would be good to see existing laws enforced and cleaning up the water quality. I'm unfamiliar with Manila, so let me lay out my maybe false assumptions:

    What can be done about all the plastic waste heading into streams and then into the bay?

    I think that there are a lot of slums and homeless people in Manila, who would not have access to sewage and probably don't use or have garbage collection. Are you saying all instances of people like this are going to be given housing, and thus the environment can be cleaned up? How has that happened?
    Plastic: need anti single use restrictions, educational campaigns, recycling campaigns, penalties for littering or dumping.

    Relocation: yes, but outside of Manila - to the north and south of Manila. Central Luzon is growing at 10% per year so obvious location. Nearly all of these people moved to Manila for work so hopefully will move again for work. It was a rule put in place two years ago, no demolition without relocation, because of all the infrastructure building.

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    While the government is putting in 40 billion pesos for the rehabilitation every Saturday at 7am people are encouraged to join volunteers on the clean up. Polluting establishments will be hit with fines of up to HKD 30,000 per day.

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    In 2018 the Philippines received an international award for the rehabilitation of the Pasig River which flows into Manila Bay. It had previously been declared biologically dead but now has fish again. So this can be done.

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    The first establishment has been temporarily shutdown. The state owned Manila Zoo. Yep all human and animal waste was going straight into the water.


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    The government asked for volunteers to help the clean up at 6 am on a Sunday morning. This does not include all those in Pampanga, Bulacan and other neighbouring provinces that have rivers flowing into the Bay.

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    Well who knew Manila had a beach?

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    Thanks for that. Was cynically wondering if that crowd ended up leaving more litter than they collected.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    Thanks for that. Was cynically wondering if that crowd ended up leaving more litter than they collected.
    I had exactly the same thought but then I saw the truckloads of garbage being taken away.

    Actually my first thought was toilets, the Philippines doesn't have an abundance of public toilets.

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