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                    [Title] => WB funding pushed for cleanup  of MMORS
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World Bank funding for the cleanup of the highly polluted Marilao-Meycauayan-Obando River System (MMORS) is being pushed by the not-for-profit Blacksmith Institute (BI), a New York-based think-tank that ranked the MMORS as the fifth dirtiest in its 2005 survey of 200 rivers all over the world.

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 788558 [Title] => DPWH bares P1.9-B Bulacan river system rehabilitation plan [Summary] =>

 The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has come out with a P1.9-billion proposal to rehabilitate the Marilao-Meycauayan-Obando River System (MMORS), which has been tagged as one of the world’s dirtiest.

[DatePublished] => 2012-03-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804849 [AuthorName] => Ding Cervantes [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 750622 [Title] => Obando sanitary landfill to open next year [Summary] =>

Officials involved in the construction of an engineered sanitary landfill in Obando, Bulacan yesterday said the facility will be operational by the second quarter of 2012.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1685860 [AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 725213 [Title] => Bulacan implements waste law to rehabilitate river [Summary] =>

President Aquino’s effort to attract potential investors and tourists abroad is setting the tone, and a province adjacent to Metro Manila is following his lead.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 719971 [Title] => Rivers [Summary] =>

We have some of the most polluted rivers in the world.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 707872 [Title] => Bulacan river cleanup gains full steam [Summary] =>

The target one million trees by December of the mangrove tree-planting project in Obando, Bulacan is gaining full steam, as it hit the mark of 200,000 mangrove saplings already planted.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 693369 [Title] => Polusyon sa ilog sa South Cotobato sanhi ng small scale mining [Summary] =>

Natuklasan sa pag-aaral ng Blacksmith Institute sa pamamagitan ng Global?Inventory Project (GIP) na mataas ang antas ng mercury o asoge sa Pulabato River? sa South Cotabato dahil laganap ang illegal na small scale mining sa lugar.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1605495 [AuthorName] => Ni Rudy Andal [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 684033 [Title] => Bulacan river polluters to be arrrested [Summary] =>

Tasked with striking out a river system in the list of a New York-based environmental group as among the world’s “dirtiest,” 100 new anti-pollution patrollers now roam the Marilao-Meycauayan-Obando River system in Bulacan to identify and run after culprits.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804849 [AuthorName] => Ding Cervantes [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 677546 [Title] => Pinaka-maruming ilog, sasagipin ng taga-Obando [Summary] =>

Inilunsad ng Sanggu­niang Bayan ng Obando sa Bulacan ang programang “Sagip-Ilog” upang mawala sa listahan ang Marilao-Meycauayan-Obando river system sa “World’s Most Polluted Places” ng kinikilalang Blacksmith Institute.

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 677142 [Title] => Pinaka-maruming ilog, sasagipin ng taga-Obando [Summary] =>

Inilunsad ng Sanggu­niang Bayan ng Obando sa Bulacan ang programang “Sagip-Ilog” upang mawala sa listahan ang Marilao-Meycauayan-Obando river system sa “World’s Most Polluted Places” ng kinikilalang Blacksmith Institute.

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) ) )
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