President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. ordered concerned agencies to ensure that the thousands of informal settler families (ISF) who will be affected by the ongoing P18-billion rehabilitation of the Pasig River will be given relocation sites. In his speech during the launch of the Pasig Bigyang Buhay Muli (PBBM) project…
San Miguel Corp. (SMC) on Tuesday said its initiative to clean up and rehabilitate the Tullahan and Pasig rivers and help mitigate flooding throughout Metro Manila has gained ground. San Miguel President and CEO Ramon S. Ang said that after 22 months of cleaning up major segments of the Tullahan-Tinajeros…
West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services Inc. (Maynilad) honored 14 water and environment champions at the recent World Water Day PH Awards 2022 (WWD.PH Awards) as the culminating event in the country’s recent week-long celebration of World Water Day. Maynilad held the event virtually together with the National Water Resources…
World Water Day PH Awards 2022 (Screengrab) MANILA - West Zone concessionaire, Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad), together with the National Water Resources Board (NWRB) and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), honored on Tuesday the 14 water and environment champions at the virtually held World Water Day PH Awards 2022 (WWD.PH Awards), the culminating event of the country's week-long celebration of World Water Day. For more than five years now, the WWD.PH Awards has been a platform for honoring champions for water and the environment - individuals, institutions, and programs that have made strides in achieving water and water-environment sustainability in the Philippines. Each WWD.PH-participating government agency and private company fields their nominees, which are then screened and vetted by a multi-organization committee before being included in the list of awardees. Maynilad's Water Warrior Awardee for this year was the Paranaque City Environment
Published May 12, 2021, 4:16 PM
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has committed to spend P1 billion for the cleanup of the Pasig River – touted as the boldest and most recent attempt at reviving the biologically inactive river.
In partnership with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), SMC said the cleanup will start before the end of May.
The cleanup, which is shaping up to be the largest joint government and private sector effort to clean up the heavily polluted and silted Pasig River, is the second such initiative of SMC.
SMC President Ramon S. Ang
For the Pasig River rehabilitation project, SMC is looking to extract some 50,000 metric tons of silt and waste every month, or a total of 600,000 metric tons per year from the river.