Environment experts and concerned groups have been warning about the sorry state of sanitation on the tourist island of Boracay for years, but no high-level action to address the problem has been taken as aggressively as now.
It took a coarse-talking President of the Republic, calling Boracay’s beach water a “cesspool,” to call attention to the seriousness of the toxic problem in the island’s sewerage and drainage system, and mobilize a concerted effort to rectify the system.
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