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In the Baywalk, fecal coliform is now down to 2,211,833 most probable number per 100 milliliters (MPN/100ml), compared to 5,666,213 MPN/100ml in 2019, the DENR reported.
The coliform level in Estero de San Antonio Abad also went down from 43,881,048 MPN/100ml to 19,066,767 MPN/100ml, and Baseco Beach from 1,700,000 MPN/100ml in 2019 to 341,225 MPN/100ml, it said.
There is still a long way to go as the standard coliform level for coastal waters which is safe for swimming and other similar recreational activities is at 100 MPN/100ml.
Despite the pandemic, government efforts to clean up Manila Bay still showed sizeable gains, according to DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu, who chairs the Manila Bay Task Force that is in charge of restoring the historic water body.
Published December 15, 2020, 6:11 PM
At least 50 portable toilets were installed in Barangay 275 at Parola Compound in Tondo, Manila on Tuesday as part of the city government’s “Kubeta Ko” project.
Manila Mayor Isko Moreno samples a toilet, one of more than 50 toilets that will be given to residents of Bgy. 275 in Parola, Manila on tuesday during the launching of Kubeta Project that will give poor communities in the city access to clean and working toilets. (Ali Vicoy)
Under the project, a portable, container-based toilet technology developed by Loowat, Limited will be used. The said company secured funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the “Kubeta Ko” project.