There’s Run for Pasig… and yesterday, there’s the Oblation Run to save the Philippine Rivers.
Members of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) fraternity of the University of the Philippines held their annual Oblation Run yesterday with the theme, “Save the Philippine Rivers”. Some of my friends were there, as we got an invite from the Sagip Ilog Pilipinas Movement (SIPM). Too bad they were not able to get photos (and we have no document imaging software). They said they were too far (the route got changed I heard)
It’s great that more …

Please join the call to save the Philippine Rivers. Join the Macli-ing Dulag Award for River Initiative.

Download the form here: http://www.philippinerivers.com/MDARI/nominationform.pdf

I had the opportunity to attend the Third Water Environment Partnership in Asia International Workshop being held at the Mandarin Hotel from today til tomorrow. We just finished Day One, and all I could say is that it was great having had the chance to listen to environment leaders from other countries in Asia as they discuss their policies, interventions, and plans to put an end to the water quality management problem they are experiencing.
I realized that we have the same problems as with other countries. They too have solid …

It was International Coastal Clean Up Day last Saturday and volunteers in the country joined forces, to do major rivers or bay clean ups.
Why do we need to do this? Well, first and foremost, water is life! Just as the Earth, our planet, is made up of 3/4s water, our bodies too, are made of the same. We need water to live — we use it to bathe, wash, cook, clean, drink, put of fires, for feeding the animals and even the plants.
And so, it’s sad that we have …