ILOILO City – Twenty-four officials of waterfront t barangays joined a recent workshop for the Jaro River cleanup at the Panay Power Training Center in Barangay Ingore, La Paz district.
The initiative, organized by the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) and General Services Office (GSO), aimed to educate the participants about ways on how to protect the river and make it safe for people through proper solid waste management.
“We must prevent garbage from going into our rivers for this will not only affect water quality but the people living near the area. We don’t want to pollute and totally destroy our rivers,” according to Mayor Jose Espinosa III.
He added: “Barangay officials should encourage their constituents to minimize or stop throwing garbage into the river.”
“The city needs strategies to solve its problems on solid waste management. As you can see, wastes are thrown everywhere, even in the river which causes water pollution,” according to CENRO head Engr. Noel Hechanova.
Topics discussed included physical and natural features of the Jaro River, garbage collection schemes, river cleanup initiatives, solid waste management issues and mitigation. (Iloilo City PIO/PN)
