an “environmental fee” since 1997, for which they were supposed to build waste treatment plants to which all Metro Manila households would be connected through sewer lines.
The matter of Manila Bay’s pollution – which the two firms were supposed to help solve by setting up waste treatment plants – became a legal issue when a group calling itself “Concerned Residents of Manila Bay” filed a complaint with the Regional Trial Court in Imus, Cavite, asking the government agencies concerned to clean up, restore, preserve, and protect the bay.
In 2009, the DENR fined the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System and the two private water concessionaires Maynilad and Manila Water for failing to connect sewage lines in subdivisions and commercial buildings and other establishments to a sewage system. In 2011, the court affirmed the DENR decision that the concessionaires, along with the MWSS, were liable to a total of P921 million in penalty. The two firms appealed the decision.
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