While lauding efforts of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in addressing water pollution, an environmental group sought giant strides from the agency particularly the implementation of a mandatory pollution disclosure of chemical waste produced by factories.
In a statement, Greenpeace Southeast Asia toxics campaigner Abi Aguilar said, “Designating Water Management Quality Areas (WQMA) to some of the country’s rivers and waterways is a good move. But we need to see bigger steps in pollution prevention if the DENR is serious in fulfilling its mandate to keep our waterways clean.”
She pointed out, citing data from the DENR, that water pollution is among the biggest problems affecting the country with as many as 50 of 421 rivers considered biologically dead or contain no oxygen and cannot sustain life.
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