The Manila Zoo was cited as one of the top polluters draining untreated sewage into the estuaries leading to Manila Bay. Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu inspected the zoo and found it had no sewage treatment plant and was discharging wastewater directly into the creek. Testing showed the creek passing through the zoo had the highest coliform levels draining into the bay. Cimatu ordered zoo officials to immediately construct a sewage treatment plant and stop discharging wastewater until completed. The city government expressed willingness to fund the zoo's rehabilitation, including building a sewage treatment plant.
The Manila Zoo was cited as one of the top polluters draining untreated sewage into the estuaries leading to Manila Bay. Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu inspected the zoo and found it had no sewage treatment plant and was discharging wastewater directly into the creek. Testing showed the creek passing through the zoo had the highest coliform levels draining into the bay. Cimatu ordered zoo officials to immediately construct a sewage treatment plant and stop discharging wastewater until completed. The city government expressed willingness to fund the zoo's rehabilitation, including building a sewage treatment plant.
The Manila Zoo was cited as one of the top polluters draining untreated sewage into the estuaries leading to Manila Bay. Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu inspected the zoo and found it had no sewage treatment plant and was discharging wastewater directly into the creek. Testing showed the creek passing through the zoo had the highest coliform levels draining into the bay. Cimatu ordered zoo officials to immediately construct a sewage treatment plant and stop discharging wastewater until completed. The city government expressed willingness to fund the zoo's rehabilitation, including building a sewage treatment plant.
The Manila Zoo was cited as one of the top polluters draining untreated sewage into the estuaries leading to Manila Bay. Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu inspected the zoo and found it had no sewage treatment plant and was discharging wastewater directly into the creek. Testing showed the creek passing through the zoo had the highest coliform levels draining into the bay. Cimatu ordered zoo officials to immediately construct a sewage treatment plant and stop discharging wastewater until completed. The city government expressed willingness to fund the zoo's rehabilitation, including building a sewage treatment plant.
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No animals were blamed in the water. their [sewage treatment plant, or making of these report. The STP], and until they do so they Cimatu and other officials earlier government-run in the Manila will not be allowed to discharge when to check the estero – Zoo was cited as one of the top any of wastewater into the officially called Estero de San sources of pollution in the river creek”, he said. Antonio Abad – at its bayside tips systems that drains into Manila in Pasay City, as they map out As Cimatu toured the zoo, the Bay, which the Duterte’s problem areas for an interagency stench of wastewater filled the administration intends to clean task force that is set to kick off a air and some visitors, including up and rehabilitate starting this massive rehabilitation effort of children, were seen covering month at cost of P74 billion. the bay. their noses. Leading an inspections of the zoo Must have STP The Department of Environment on Friday, Environment Secretary and Natural Resources(DENR) Roy Cimatu confirmed that that According to Cimatu, they have chief said the Manila city facility had been draining discovered that the zoo—which government had expressed untreated sewage into one of the is operated by the city willingness to provide funds to estuaries that lead to the bay. government of Manila—does not help in the rehabilitation of the have its own sewage treatment Speaking to reporters, he said the zoo, including the construction of facility and for years has been section of the estuary that cuts its own sewage treatment plant. discharging its wastewater through the zoo compound directly into the creek that flows Studies cited by the department “registered the highest coliform into the bay. noted a high concentration of level draining into the bay” at 1.3 fecal coliform—consisting of human and animal waste—in pending in the city council for Estero de San Antonio Abad. approval Officially called the Manila Zoological and Botanical Garden, the zoo has been operation since July 1959. The country’s oldest zoo occupies 5.5 hectares in the heart of Manila and is currently home to some 500 animals. Discussion for renovating the zoo started in 2013 when the city government entertained unsolicited proposals from a group of Singaporean investors and a local company. Pending renovation plan In 2015, the city government signed a P1.5 billion joint venture agreement with Metropolitan and Botanical Garden Inc. to undertake a total rehabilitation of the zoo. The agreement is