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World Bank Loan for Laguna Lake Rehabilitation
« on: February 05, 2011, 11:58:43 AM »
World Bank Loan for Laguna Lake Rehabilitation

The Philippine government will receive $ 10 million in loans within three years from the World Bank and the Royal Netherlands to rehabilitate and dredge the Laguna de Bay.

In a news briefing in Malacañang on Friday, Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said the board of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) chaired by President Benigno C. Aquino III has approved the project and the loans from international funding agencies.

The loan will be used to rehabilitate and dredge the Laguna Lake including lakeshore reclamation, improvement of water quality and management of the lake’s resources such as fishery, water supply and the development of transport systems, ports and marinas.

The project, envisioned under Executive Order 815 of the previous administration, was intended to repair the damage caused by the storm Ondoy on Laguna de Bay when heavy rains caused the bay to grow in size from 80,000 hectares to 115,000 hectares.

The new project to be implemented over the next three years, replaced the controversial P18.7-billion Laguna Lake Dredging Project canceled by President Aquino.

The new Laguna Lake rehabilitation plan seeks to solve flooding in Metro Manila, clean Laguna Lake and create the longest lakeshore park in the world.

The project will also decongest Metro Manila from traffic and squatter problems, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, protect the watershed, stimulate investments and tourism and reclaim lands for business, industrial and residential purposes. (PNA)

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Re: World Bank Loan for Laguna Lake Rehabilitation
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2011, 12:14:16 PM »
Daghan nang scientific studies and recommendations sa early 90s pa, karon grabe na hinuon ang problema.

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Re: World Bank Loan for Laguna Lake Rehabilitation
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2011, 12:18:29 PM »
Children near Laguna Lake have low IQ, says LLDA study

September 8, 2010 6:37 am
By Francis M. Bilowan


MANILA, Sept. 7 –- Parents of schoolchildren living near the Laguna de Bay, better be extra watchful to your children.

A study conducted by the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) found that fish caught in the Laguna lake, particularly “tilapia,” could be contaminated with mercury and other harmful chemicals.

School principals of schools surrounding the lake confirmed that pupils living near the Laguna Lake have low intelligence quotient (IQ) and have difficulty in comprehending their lessons. School authorities blamed the intelligence deficiency of the pupils on the eating of fish caught in the lake suspected of containing mercury and other harmful chemicals.

”Mercury, a neurotic substance, has a significant effect on human intelligence,” authorities said.

The World Bank-funded study conducted in 2008, the results of which were released in 2009, also found that level of fish samples caught in Laguna Lake, is beyond the acceptable limit of 1.6 micrograms per kilo per week set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in June 2003.

Authorities said the findings of the LLDA study should be given consideration because tilapia is like janitor fish. The urged residents around Laguna de Bay to be cautious in eating fish caught in the lake.

A similar study conducted by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), however, stated that heavy metal contents found in fish samples from the lake have passed acceptable standards.

According to the LLDA study, the highest mercury level of the edible parts of the fish samples was 5.5 micrograms per kilo per week, very much higher than the acceptable limit of 1.6 micrograms per kilo per week set by the FAO and WHO seven years ago.

LLDA officials said that a man with a body weight of 67 kilos and consuming less than 0.72 kilo of fish caught in the lake per week is taking in 3.9655 micrograms of mercury per week.

Earlier, LLDA general manager Edgardo Manda said that Laguna de Bay would die in a few years if pollution is left unchecked, pointing out that the lake has become a “septic tank” because the lake’s shoreline has been occupied by some 32,000 families, with several thousand other informal settlers inhabiting the shoreline from Pasig in Metro Manila to Siniloan in Laguna.


More at: http://balita.ph/2010/09/08/children-near-laguna-lake-have-low-iq-says-llda-study/

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