Rivers

This is an embarrassment. One global. report widely carried by local media lists seven Philippine rivers among the top ten most responsible for ocean pollution. Pasig River tops the list as the most polluted river. Another report estimates the Philippines account for about a third of the waste dumped into the world’s oceans. That makes us the biggest ocean polluter among all countries, including those with economies many times the size of ours. One may quibble about the details by which these estimates were arrived at. But we cannot quarrel with the overall observation: the country has among t...