Heat is up, water supply is down
OVER 700 million people all over the world have no access to safe drinking water, data from real time statistics Worldometer show.
But we need...
Chemicals
(We yield this space to the statement of environmental watchdog BAN Toxics due to its timeliness. – Ed.)
AS THE increasing use of chemicals becomes...
Change reactive approach
ARE LOCAL government units (LGUs) prepared for the looming El Niño phenomenon? The long dry spell will surely hit water supply. Water scarcity will...
People’s right to chemical safety
THE COMMISSION on Human Rights (CHR) is an independent constitutional office created under the 1987 Constitution, with the primary function of investigating all forms...
Our battered Mother Earth
APRIL 22 is Earth Day. We won’t grow tired reminding ourselves of our grave moral responsibility to protect Mother Earth.
One way to do this...
Inadequate attention
WESTERN Visayas is a major supplier of competent and able seafarers. We have lots of maritime schools that produce seafarers. It is estimated that...
SIM registration
AROUND only half – maybe even less – of active SIM cards have been registered so far with just a week before the April...
Mental health crisis
OVER 400 student suicides happened in academic year 2021-2022, according to the Department of Education (DepEd). Of the country’s 28 million young learners in...
Skills gap
A RECENT situational report by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) found that fresh graduates of the so-called “pandemic generation” are finding it more...
Where’s your brgy rain harvesting facility?
WITH El Niño and a water crisis looming on the horizon, we have to ask the barangays and local government units: Why don’t your...