Water Quality Issues and How to Address Them Water quality meter
Nov 302009


Poor water quality has large economic and quality of life costs, in terms of health impacts and foregone revenues. According to the Philippine government’s monitoring data, just over 36 percent of the country’s river systems are classified as sources of public water supply and that up to 58 percent of groundwater sampled is contaminated with coliform and needs treatment. Approximately 31 percent of illnesses monitored for a five-year period were also caused by water-borne sources, and many …

8 Responses to “Philippines Environment Monitor: Water Quality”

  1. vivavoce83 says:

    If only our country’s development program would take into consideration ecological factors, if we, the citizenry would take measures to conserve the environment, and last but not the least, if only our GOV’T. strictly enforces environmental laws. IF ONLY.

  2. GHfanNr1 says:

    we saw ths on school lol

  3. 2351156 says:

    How shameful as I’m Filipino myself. Were just… pretty lazy.

  4. moonieboomer says:

    1. Cover your mouth with you hand
    2. Make a wish
    3.Close your hand (fist)
    4. Hold you hand at heart for 5 seconds
    5. Send this to 3 more videos
    6. Tomorrow will be the best day ever

  5. keithmias says:

    Lol, maraming educado sa atin, problema lang tradition natin ang mag self-pity. Kinakalabasan madami sa atin Mga Tamad. Basurang-basura lang di maitapon ng maayos. i-i-hi sa poste pa sa publico o sa gilid ng pader. Di pa naghuhugas ng kamay. Gubyerno natin inutil. Hindi priority ang sanitation. Dumaan ka sa Kalentong, ang ilog di-na gumagalaw dahil lahat basura ang nakatambak. Malapit nang mag-outbreak and sakit dyan, matter of months na lang. sobrang bantot kahit saan ka pumunta. MGA TAMAD!!!

  6. toxifiedblood says:

    Cause of continuous deterioration of the Philippines water resources can be sum up into two:
    1. Socio-economic issues (cultural)
    2. Poor governance

  7. sefness says:

    I don’t know to whom I’m making comment to but here goes. The water polution problem has a very simple solution. The government must make law and designated officials should enforce the law. Sounds easy to say but I believe it is easy to do as well.Because without law you have nothing at all.

  8. eeluminateus says:

    Seems to me that conservation and development work against each other; am I wrong? What different development planning strategies could have been implemented to safegaurd against this?

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