DENR records significant drop in Manila Bay s coliform level
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 18) The Department of Environment and Natural Resources recorded a significant drop in Manila Bay s coliform level.
American-based Water Research Center defines fecal coliform bacteria as a group of bacteria passed through the fecal excrement of humans, livestock, and wildlife. The higher fecal coliform count in water means it is contaminated with heavy presence of bacteria which may cause diseases to humans like ear infections, dysentery, typhoid fever, viral and bacterial gastroenteritis, and hepatitis A.
Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu said Manila Bay s coliform level dropped from 7.16 million most probable number per 100 milliliters (mpn/100ml) in 2020 to 4.87 million mpn/100ml in February 2021.
Already polluted 22 years ago, the waters of Manila Bay are now “several times filthier” notwithstanding the multi-million peso backed government effort to improve it.
February 15, 2021
The Filipina Comfort Women monument in the Manila Bay that was removed in 2018 and later disappeared. Kaisa
A two-metre-high bronze statue memorialising the Filipino women forced to become sex slaves by Japan ’s military during World War II has gone missing in Manila, underscoring the country’s challenges in balancing diplomatic relations with its largest source of development aid amid calls to hold Tokyo accountable for this wartime atrocity.
The “Filipina Comfort Women” monument was hurriedly dismantled by the Philippine government on April 28, 2018 ahead of the May 3 Asian Development Bank (ADB) annual summit that year.
President Rodrigo Duterte said the next day that while the monument was “freedom of expression … it is not the policy of government to antagonise other nations” and it should therefore be placed elsewhere.
Already polluted 22 years ago, the waters of Manila Bay are now “several times filthier” notwithstanding the multi-million peso backed government effort to improve it.