Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 21) — More companies are getting into cleaning Manila Bay.
Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to be a part of the Adopt-an-Estero Program that would assist in the rehabilitation of Manila Bay.
The five-year partnership would commit MPIC and its companies — Maynilad, Meralco, Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation, Metro Pacific Hospital Holdings Inc., and Light Rail Manila Corporation — to clean up and restore esteros assigned to them.
““Upon acknowledging the objective of the DENR to promote stewardship among the private sector, MPIC through Maynilad is set on assisting government agencies in improving water quality parameters of the country’s water bodies,” MPIC President Jose Maria Lim said in a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange.
MPIC and its group of companies are in charge of the following esteros:
Estero de Vitas
Estero de San Lazaro
Estero de Kabulusan
Estero de Magdalena
Estero de Binondo
Estero dela Reina
Estero de Sampaloc
Estero de San Sebastian
Estero de San Miguel
Estero de Valencia
Estero de Quiapo
Estero de Uli-Uli
Estero de Paco
Estero de Pandacan
Estero de Tanque
Estero de Balete
Estero de Provisor
Estero de Concordia
Estero de Sunog Apog
Estero de San Antonio Abad
MPIC would work closely with DENR, local government units and other concerned government and private agencies to clean up these water ways that lead to Manila bay.
Other companies have also committed to cleaning up rivers and esteros leading to the bay, including San Miguel Corporation, which adopted Tullahan river, and SM Prime Holdings, which adopted Paranaque river.
READ: DENR, San Miguel Corp. ink partnership to rehabilitate Tullahan River
