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Believe it or not the Philippine government created a "commission" called the [http://www.prrc.gov.ph/ Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC)]. This commission was created in 1999 by virtue of Executive Order No. 54, as amended by executive Order No. 65. Fourteen (14) years later not much has been done. The organization does not have a whole lot of success stories to showcase the things that they have accomplished. | Believe it or not the Philippine government created a "commission" called the [http://www.prrc.gov.ph/ Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC)]. This commission was created in 1999 by virtue of Executive Order No. 54, as amended by executive Order No. 65. Fourteen (14) years later not much has been done. The organization does not have a whole lot of success stories to showcase the things that they have accomplished. | ||
Here is a "success" story that the PRRC has in [http://www.prrc.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72:the-rehabilitation-and-development-of-esteros&catid=40:news&Itemid=99 their website]. This is great and hopefully there will be more, but they did not address the sewer system problem. The sewer continues to drain into the pasig river and continues to kill it. | |||
The pasig river continues to get more and more polluted as the population of the communities nearby increases. | The pasig river continues to get more and more polluted as the population of the communities nearby increases. | ||