6. PHILIPPINE CLEAN WATER ACT 2004 - RA 9275 Flashcards
“Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004.”
RA 9275
RA 9275
“Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004.”
The State shall pursue a policy of economic growth in a manner consistent with the protection, preservation and revival of the quality of our fresh, brackish and marine waters. To achieve this end, the framework for _______________ shall be pursued
sustainable development (10)
- means a layer of water-bearing rock located underground that transmits water in sufficient quantity to supply pumping wells or natural springs.
Aquifer
- means all organisms living in freshwater, brackish and marine environment.
Aquatic life
- means the use of the environment or any element or segment thereof conducive to publicor private welfare, safety and health; and shall include, but not be limited to, the use of water for domestic, municipal, irrigation, power generation, fisheries, livestock raising, industrial, recreational and other purposes.
Beneficial use
– means the categorization
of all water bodies taking into account
Classification/Reclassification of Philippine Waters
- means non-government organizations (NGOs) and people’s organizations (POs).
Civil Society
- means the application of an integrated, preventive environmental strategy to processes, products, services to increase efficiency and reduce risks to humans and the environment;
Cleaner production
- means activities involving the removal of pollutants discharged or spilled into a water body and its surrounding areas, and the restoration of the affected areas to their former physical, chemical and biological state or conditions.
Clean-up operations
- means the introduction of substances not found in the natural composition of waterthat make the water less desirable or unfit for intended use.
Contamination
- means the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
Department
is not limited to, the act of spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting,
emptying, releasing or dumping of any material into a water body oronto land from which it might flow or drain into said water.
Discharge includes
- means water intended for human consumption or for use in food preparation.
Drinking water
- means any unauthorized or illegal disposal into any body of water or land of wastes or toxic or hazardous material: Provided, That it does not mean a release of effluent coming from
commercial, industrial, and domestic sources which are within the effluent standards.
Dumping
- means discharges from known source which is passed into a body of water or land, or wastewater flowing out of a manufacturing plant, industrial plant including domestic, commercial and recreational facilities.
Effluent
combination thereof, of physical, chemical or biological parameters of effluent which a person or point source is allowed to discharge into a body of water or land.
Effluent standard
- means the entire system which includes, but is not limited to, conservation, regulation and minimization of pollution, clean production, waste management, environmental law and policy, environmental education and information, study and mitigation of the environmental impacts of human activity, and environmental research.
Environmental management
- means the part of the overall management system that
includes organizational structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes and resources for developing, implementing, achieving, reviewing and maintaining the environmental policy.
Environmental management system
- means water containing less than 500 ppm dissolved common salt, sodium chloride,
such as that in groundwater, rivers, ponds and lakes.
Freshwater
- means a subsurface water that occurs beneath a water table in soils and rocks, or in geological formations.
Groundwater
- means relative ease with which a contaminant located at or near then land surface can migrate to the aquifer or deep well.
Groundwater vulnerability
- means the identified areas of the land surface where groundwater quality is most at risk from human activities and shall reflect the different degrees of groundwater vulnerability based on a range of soil properties and hydro-geological criteria to serve as guide in the protection of the groundwater from contamination.
Groundwater vulnerability map
- means any waste or combination of wastes of solid, liquid, contained gaseous, or semi-solid form which cause, or contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness, taking into account toxicity of such waste, its persistence and degradability in nature, its potential for accumulation or concentration in tissue, and other factors that may otherwise cause or contribute to adverse acute or chronic effects on the health of persons or organism.
Hazardous waste
- means any solid, semi-solid or liquid waste material with no commercial value released by a manufacturing or processing plant other than excluded material.
Industrial waste