MANILA, Philippines — The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has directed barangays to conduct an inventory of the informal settler families (ISFs) living along Manila Bay’s shoreline and the bay’s tributaries, an official said yesterday. He said the proliferation of informal settlers along the waterways leading to Manila Bay is an obstacle to the bay’s rehabilitation. Eighty to 85 percent of trash found in the bay’s waters are from ISFs living along waterways, Densing alleged. He said the DILG is trying to balance rehabilitating Manila Bay and implementing the Urban Development and Housing Act. “We would be deploying heavy machineries in certain areas, we would come up with programs like the trash skimmer.

Source: Philippine Star February 02, 2019 16:07 UTC