GMA slammed for selling Tamugan River to big business

An environmentalist group in Davao City has condemned President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for relinquishing responsibility to protect Davao City’s watersheds in favor of corporate interests.
A coalition of watershed advocates called KAWAL- Tubig issued this observation after Malacañang recently lifted the limit of hectares for banana plantations, and after the National Water Resources Board (NWRB) and the [...]

SAVE DAVAO REGION’S RIVERS

RESIST PSEUDO-DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS GEARED FOR CORPORATE PROFITEERING AND CAPITALIST PLUNDER!
 Statement of PANALIPDAN -Southern Mindanao for the International Day of Action for Rivers March 14, 2009 On the International Day of Action for Rivers, PANALIPDAN*
Southern Mindanao enjoins the people of Davao to join hands and collectively assert the peoples’ rights to water resources and unite in [...]

davao city watershed protection ordinance

Delayed funds stalling watershed protection efforts
A landmark Davao City ordinance aiming to protect the watershed areas could not be implemented for lack of funds.
City Hall environmental planners however are hoping funding could be approved as the city government focuses on giving import to the city watershed areas which serve as recharge points for the [...]

Saving Davao City’s underground water reservoir

Firm junks plan to bottle Dumoy water for export
By ROGER M. BALANZA
A company planning to establish a soft drink and juice plant in Davao City has abandoned a plan to bottle drinking water for export drawn out from the city aquifer.
The junking by InterBev Philippines Inc. to junk the Bottled Drinking Water Production Line [...]

Bottling plant no threat to Davao City underground water reservoir

City Hall okays bottling plant in aquifer area
BY ROGER M. BALANZA

City Hall has endorsed to the Davao City Council for approval the application by Interbev Philippines to put up a bottling and soft drinks plant in Binugao in Toril.
The favorable endorsement for the InterBev project follows the approval in December [...]

Davao water district endorses bottling firm in aquifer

The Davao City Water District (DCWD) has eaten its own warning about the city aquifer facing threat by over-extraction and has given permit to a bottling company to dig a well to draw water from the underground reservoir.
After saying it is going into tapping surface water to ease pressure on the aquifer, DCWD has [...]

DCWD hit for allowing bottling companies in Davao City aquifer area

(This post is in big, bold letters for better read by DCWD manager Rodora Gamboa and spokeswoman Imelda Magsuci who should explain why they have to sell the water source, the patrimony of the Dabawenyos, to big business despite the aquifer facing severe depletion-durianburgdavao)
Betrays  claim  of depletion of  underground water reservoir
By ROGER M. BALANZA [...]

HOW NOT TO SAVE THE AQUIFER

Bottling firms rapped for illegal drilling
By ROGER M. BALANZA

Two companies proposing bottling plants in Binugao in Toril in Davao City dug wells to draw water from the aquifer before they can get a permit from the National Water Resources Board (NWRB) or the Davao City Water District (DCWD).
The violation was revealed [...]

Davao City Watershed Code

Councilors urge City Hall: Implement Cabling Code
 
            A study showing pesticide contamination in the watershed areas in Davao City has sparked an urgent call by a city councilor for the immediate implementation of the Watershed Management, Protection and Conservation Code authored by councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling.
            The Code aiming to protect the city’s watershed [...]

Davao City shields aquifer from more Pepsi, CocaCola bottling plants

SP says no to bottling projects in aquifer area
By ROGER M. BALANZA

The Davao City Council is putting on hold approval of bottling projects atop the city aquifer, while the Water Resource Protection and Management Code lack an Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR).
Councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling has also called for the constitution of the Water [...]