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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 712 |
Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System
The Commissioner
National Pollution Control Commission
The General Manager
National Housing Authority
The increasing requirements of the population for the standard facilities for decent and healthy living, particularly water, compel the government to exercise greater initiative in discovering further reserves in the environment and managing these for the general welfare. The problem is particularly felt in the Greater Manila area, where immediate steps must be taken as outlined below.
1.
In view of the need to locate underground sources of water supply
in the Greater Manila area and surrounding provinces, it is hereby
directed that a hydrologic survey of the entire area be immediately
undertaken. While the immediate concern is the Greater manila area,
however, the same effort should subsequently be extended to the rest of
the country.
2. On
recommendation of the Ministry of Human Settlements, the Metropolitan
Waterworks and Sewerage System and other agencies concerned are hereby
directed to take immediate steps to stop the use of the Manila Bay and
Laguna de Bay as waste deposits by the towns and residential areas
besides these bodies of water. It is the unanimous view of
experts who have studied the pollution problem in the area that
the progressive deterioration of these two water resources has been
caused by their utilization as dumping areas for human water in the
surrounding towns.
In this connection, it is
further directed that measures be undertaken to recycle wastes from
towns along the Manila Bay and Laguna de Bay by the most efficient
method possible under present technology.
3. A large
factor which contributes to pressure on the resources of the Greater
Manila area is the continuing migration to the area, especially Manila
itself. It should now be concern of government not only to stop this
exodus from the provinces but to reverse it instead.
It is therefore directed that study of this problem and possible solutions, particularly how the reversal of the migration to Manila may be effected, be undertaken immediately. A suggestion is to prohibit any movement for purpose of residence into the Metropolitan Manila area unless there is proof of availability of facilities.
A report on the foregoing matters to be submitted as soon as possible is desired.
Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.
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