Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004 Flashcards
An act providing for a comprehensive water quality management and for other purposes.
RA No. 9275
Implementing rules and regulations of RA 9275
DAO 2005-10
Water quality guidelines (WQG) and general effluent standards (GES)
DAO 2016-08
Updated water quality guidelines (WQG) and general effluent standards (GES) for selected parameters
DAO 2021-19
Why the need for a clean water act?
- protection of water bodies
- clean and drinkable water
- water quality management
What is the main law that control and regulate the ownership, appropriate, utilization, exploitation, development, control, and conservation or protection of water resources of the Philippines?
P.D. 1067 (Water Code of the Philippines and its Amended IRR)
This act shall apply to water quality management in all water bodies: Provided, that it shall primarily apply to abatement and control of pollution from land-based sources Provided, further, that the water quality standards and regulations and the civil liability and penal provisions under this act shall be enforced irrespective of sources of pollution.
SECTION 3. Coverage of the Act
Primary government agency responsible for the implementation and enforcement of Clean Water Act, with the support of other government organizations, local government units, non-government organizations and the private sector.
DENR
Prepares water quality vulnerability map for DENR.
MGB
True or False. The EMB will review and set effluent standards, review and enforces water quality guidelines.
False. DENR
What are the different water quality guidelines of DENR?
Classify Groundwater Sources
Prepare a National Groundwater Vulnerability Map
Classify and reclassify Water Bodies
Establish Internationally Accepted Procedures for Sampling and Analysis
Prepare an Integrated Water Quality Framework
Prepare 10 year Management Plan
The government agency which manages and regulates all water resources and services in the Philippines. It integrates and coordinates all water related activities that have social, environmental, and economic impacts in the country.
National Water Resources Board (NWRB)
True or False. The NWRB is under the administrative supervision of the DENR as an attached agency.
TRUE
________ shall enforce water quality standards in marine waters, specifically from offshore sources.
Philippine Coast Guard
_______ through its attached agencies shall provide sewerage and sanitation facilities and the efficient and safe collection treatment and disposal of sewage within their area of jurisdiction.
Department of Public Works and Highways
_________ shall formulate guidelines for the re-use of wastewater for irrigation and other agricultural uses and for the prevention, control and abatement of pollution from agricultural and agriculture activities.
Department of Agriculture
________ shall set, revise and enforce drinking water quality standards.
Department of Health
______ shall evaluate, verify, develop, and disseminate pollution prevention and cleaner production technologies.
Department of Science and Technology
______ shall prepare and implement a comprehensive and continuing public education and information program.
Department of Education
Commission on Higher Education
Department of Interior and Local Government
Philippine Information Agency
Discharge from a known source which is passed into a water body or wastewater flowing out of a manufacturing plant, industrial plant including domestic, commercial and recreational facilities.
Effluent
Any legal restriction or limitation on quantities, rates, and/or concentrations or any combination thereof, of physical, chemical or biological parameters of effluent which a person or a point source is allowed to discharge in a body of water or land.
Effluent Standard
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 organisms.
Hazardous waste
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
The policy guideline integrating all the existing frameworks prepared by all government agencies on water quality involving pollution from all sources.
Integrated Water Quality Management Framework
The integrated water quality management framework shall contain the following.
Water quality
Period of Compliance
Water Pollution Control Strategies and Techniques
Water quality information and education program
Human resources development program
Any substance, whether solid, liquid, gaseous or radioactive, which directly or indirectly
(i) alters the quality of any segment of the receiving water body so as to affect or tend to affect adversely any beneficial use thereof;
(ii) hazardous or potentially hazardous to health
(iii) imparts objectionable odor, temperature change, or physical, chemical or biological change to any segment of the water body;
(iv) excess of the allowable limits or concentration of the condition, limitation or restriction prescribed in this ACT.
Pollutant
Any source of pollution not identifiable as point source to include, but not be limited to, run-off from irrigation or rainwater which picks up pollutants from farms and urban areas.
Non-point source
Any identifiable source of pollution with specific point of discharge into a particular water body.
Point source
Report to be prepared by DENR indicating:
(i) the location of water bodies, their water quality taking into account seasonal, tidal and other variations, existing and potential uses and sources of pollution per specific pollutant and pollution load assessment;
(ii) water quality management areas pursuant to section 5 of this act
(iii) water classification
National Water Quality Report
Sludge produce on individual onsite wastewater-disposal systems principally septic tanks and cesspools.
Septage
Water-borne human and animal wastes, excluding oil or oil wastes, removed from residences, buildings, institutions, industrial and commercial establishments together with such groundwater, surface water, and storm water as may be present including such waste from vessels, offshore structures, other receptacles intended to receive or retain wastes, or other places or the combination thereof
Sewage
Includes, but is not limited to, any system or network of pipelines, ditches, channels, or conduits including pumping stations, lift stations and force mains, service connections including other constructions, devices, and appliances appurtenant thereto, which involves the collection, transport, pumping and treatment of sewage to a point of disposal
Sewerage
Any solid, semi-solid or liquid waste and residue generated from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or water control pollution facility, or any other such waste having similar characteristics and effects.
Sludge
The wastewater discharge permitting system is being enforces by _________ and _____________.
DENR and Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA)