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August 20, 2018

Update on Boracay rehab: Senator Cynthia Villar queries officials from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and other agencies regarding the latest progress in the rehabilitation of Boracay Island, at a hearing on Monday, August 20, 2018. Villar, chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, said that the government's rehabilitation program for Boracay should solve its waste water problem, noting that improper waste water disposal "contributed a lot to why the island became a cesspool." (PRIB Photo by Albert Calvelo/ 20 August 2018)

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