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<tr><td align="center">[[File:Riprap gutter2.jpg|300px]]<br>An example of a RIPRAP/GUTTER system that will permanently solve the river polution and the polution of the Sea.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">[[File:Talomo River embankment (protection) project, Calinan Proper, Davao City with gutter system.jpg|300px]]<br>An actual picture of a rip-rap built in 2014 in [[Calinan Proper Davao city philippines]] with sewer built to drain into the river. A simple river gutter system could prevent the polution.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">[[File:Marilao River Water Pollution in -Philippines.jpg|300px]]<br>Polluted River of [[Marilao, Bulacan, Philippines]]<br>The people and the government do not CARE. No pride in their heritage.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">[[File:Marilao River Water Pollution.jpg|300px]]<br>Polluted River of [[Marilao, Bulacan, Philippines]]. 

'''This river runs deep but I bet you a chicken can walk across this river without sinking!'''

The Marilao in Bulacan is among four iconic rivers whose polluted conditions are spotlighted in ‘Hidden Consequences’, a new report published today by Greenpeace. The report calls for urgent action to protect the livelihoods of the people and wildlife that depend on these waterways and the life-sustaining resources that they provide, by demanding that policy-makers commit to a Toxic-Free Future.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">[[File:Makabalo (macabalo) River, Brgy. 59 Puro, Legazpi, Albay.jpg|300px]]<br>Makabalo (macabalo) River, Brgy. 59 Puro, Legazpi, Albay. The river is flooded but the debris is still visible.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">[[File:Balili river, Benguet.jpg|300px]]<br>Balili River, Benguet Province<br>The Balili river runs about 26 kilometers and winds down through the populated areas of the province. Buildings on either side of the river dumps all their sewer into the river. A simple open_gutter system installed alongside the river banks will prevent the sewer from being dumped into the river. The open-gutter will collect the sewer and it will be emptied out in a lagoon or out into the sea.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">[[File:Truckee river reno nevada.JPG|300px]]<br>'''''Truckee River running through downtown Reno, Nevada. Pristine, Crystal Clear and unpolluted. It really depends on the people. Here the citizens and the government care. They are proud of their river.'''''</td></tr>
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*By: Franklin H. Maletsky
**email: franklin_maletsky@yahoo.com
**message via: [https://www.facebook.com/maletsky Facebook]
==Protect and Save The Rivers and Lakes of the Philippines. They are Dying==
*You can get to this webpage by using this short URL:
*http://www.zamboanga.com/rivers
The caretaker of the Natural Resources of the Philippines is the DENR
[http://www.denr.gov.ph Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)]]<br>
OIC-Secretary: Joselin Marcus E. Fragada<br>
Department of Environment and Natural Resources<br>
Visayas Avenue, Diliman, 1100 Quezon City, Philippines<br>
+63-2-929-6626<br>
osec@denr.gov.ph<br>
*DENR MISSION
**Our mission is to mobilize our citizenry in protecting, conserving and managing the environment and natural resources.
**It is our mandate to stop environmental abuses, reverse ecological degradation, conserving remaining natural resources and ensure that they benefit our people
===The Rivers of the Philippines===
*There are 421 rivers in the Philippines. You can find them here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RP-Rivers/

==Efforts to Clean the Rivers of the Philippines==
[[Save The Rivers in the Philippines. They are Dying|<font color=orange size=4>'''Protect & Save the Rivers''']]. </font><font color=green>'''Do not let your sewer drain into the river'''</font>. Your community can be the first to initiate this project. <br>Build your riverbank protection with a [[Sewer_Systems_of_the_Philippines#Solution_to_the_Sewer_System_and_Salvation_of_the_Water_Systems_of_the_Philippines|built-in gutter system]].

As of the year 2016, the Philippine rivers continue to be the #1 sewer system in the Philippines.

The government from the barangay level to the Regional level has embarked on several yearly projects to clean the rivers. This yearly endeavors do not really clean the rivers. They help remove the debris but the lethal toxicity, the slime and grime in the rivers remain.

There is one fact that everybody knows from young children to old men and women; Nature cleans itself. Yes it does. In the case of the Philippines, mother nature tries very hard. We all know that every year during the rainy season the floods cleanse the river systems of the Philippines. This is a yearly purge that Mother nature does. But it does not stay clean for long.

The political leaders and top-notch government officials usually right before the rainy season come along (last week of April), will go on a campaign to clean the rivers. Plenty of volunteers, clubs, associations will be involved. There will be lots of picture taking and publication. They will do some work knowing full well that Mother Nature will be right behind to clean-up the rest. Generally the rainy season in the Philippines starts in the month of May or June.

The efforts of these leaders are good and all mean well, but they do not solve the problem. Because right after the clean-up efforts the people (including some of those who volunteered) go back to their old bad habits of throwing their garbage in the river and flushing their sewers into the gutters that empty into the Rivers. This continues on and on and on. Then the following year the government officials campaign again to clean the rivers and the cycle repeats itself.

When will they ever learn?

The [[Sewer_Systems_of_the_Philippines#Solution_to_the_Sewer_System_and_Salvation_of_the_Water_Systems_of_the_Philippines|SOLUTION:]]

==Save the Lakes of the Philippines==
*[[Lake Lanao - Save It]] - Lake Lanao is located in the Province of [[Lanao del Sur Province, Philippines|Lanao del Sur]], Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines. It is one of the 17 ancient lakes of the world and used to be home to 18 endemic fish species, a special kind of fish that only existed in Lake Lanao. It is also the ancestral domain of the Meranao people and is the heart of the people’s spiritual, cultural, social, political and economic life.....[[Lake Lanao - Save It|>>>Read More]]

===Save Laguna de Bay from Pollution and Sewer Drainage===
Laguna de Bay is surrounded by highly populated and urban communities, most of which drain their sewer systems in the lake.
[[File:Laguna de bay shoreline.jpg|350px]]<br>
:article below copied verbatim from :http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/56646/Laguna-de-Bay
Laguna de Bay, lake, the largest inland body of water in the Philippines, on Luzon just southeast of Manila. Probably a former arm or extension of Manila Bay cut off by volcanism, Laguna de Bay (Spanish: “Lake of the Bay”) has a normal area of about 356 square miles (922 square km) and is about 32 miles (51 km) long. Its shallow, crescent-shaped basin is poorly drained by many small streams, and the surrounding low-lying plains are inundated during seasons of heavy rainfall. The Pasig River is the lake’s outlet to Manila Bay, 10 miles (16 km) northwest. An important fishing area, with productive wet margins (rice), Laguna de Bay is broken by two peninsulas in the north and dotted by islands; densely settled Talim (9 miles [14 km] long) is the largest. Santa Cruz, Biñan, and Calamba are towns on the lake’s southern shore.

The housing development you see above in the aerial picture drain their sewer into the bay, gradually polluting and killing the bay. Installing a [[Sewer_Systems_of_the_Philippines#Solution_to_the_Sewer_System_and_Salvation_of_the_Water_Systems_of_the_Philippines|gutter system]] around the bay will help solve the pollution problem of the bay.<br>
[[File:Laguna de bay shoreline 1.jpg|350px]]<br>
The Power plant on the shore of Laguna de Bay, Sucat, Muntinlupa City, Philippines and the flourishing communities next to it drain their polluted sewer into the lake of Laguna de Bay

*January 2016: [ http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/ideas/120068-dangerous-laguna-lakeshore-expressway-dike The dangerous Laguna Lakeshore Expressway Dike] A project to build a “Laguna Lakeshore Expressway Dike” (LLED) east of the shoreline from Bicutan to Los Baños, also meant to protect Metro Manila from lake floods, is very dangerous. Its first phase, from Bicutan to Calamba is proceeding with alarming rapidity. Contracts are to be awarded this April. Attaching the "open gutter" system to the side of the dike will stop the pollution of lake.

==What the leaders of the Philippines are saying==
*[[Save Our Rivers by Senator Franklin M. Drilon]]
*[[Aquino reaffirms government commitment to preserve country's water resources]]
*[[Speech of His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino President of the Philippines At the 1st Philippine International River Summit]]

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*You can get to this webpage by using this short URL:
*http://www.zamboanga.com/rivers