The dolomite beach on Manila Bay sought to portray a successful cleanup campaign but on the bay’s periphery lay the real problem—ecological damage that hundreds of millions of pesos worth of ...

The use of crushed dolomite sand will not help solve the environmental problems in Manila Bay. At most, it is a beautification effort that is costly and temporary," the UP MSI said.

PREVIEW Visitors enjoy the “white sand”—actually crushed dolomite—beach on the Manila Bay shore after it was opened to the public for one day on Sunday, September 20, 2020.

The Manila beach project is part of the grand rehabilitation plan of the waters spanning Cavite, Manila and Bataan. The Manila shoreline will be filled with crushed dolomite rocks from Cebu.

Manila Bay has already been beset by long-standing environmental problems, such as pollution and resource exploitation. The DENR claimed that the crushed dolomite will not disrupt the bay’s ...

Like the controversial “Dolomite Beach” along Roxas Boulevard in Manila, which gave the Bay Walk area the Boracay-like white-sand beach appeal, the reclamation projects in Pasay, and other ...

A viral post comparing two images of Manila Bay is circulating on social media. Both were taken during Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's term.

Residents of the Philippines' capital on Saturday flocked to an artificial white sand beach that the government has transformed from a polluted stretch of shoreline to mark International Coastal ...

But various environmental groups have denounced the DENR’s shipping of dolomite rocks for focusing on the aesthetics of Manila Bay rather than its genuine rehabilitation.

1. Liquid Waste Management To address the rampant water pollution affecting Manila Bay, the government has prioritized the construction of sewage treatment plants (STPs) in strategic urban areas, ...

THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has come under increasing pressure to revisit its controversial P400-million “white-sand” project in Manila Bay, with critics citing ...