Is our water safe? Greenpeace campaigner Beau Baconguis pours 'contaminated water' into a drinking glass as a demonstration of how the availability and access to clean water and drinking water sources are threatened by toxic pollution. Greenpeace today launched ‘Project: Clean Water,’ an initiative that aims to catalyze action to protect Philippine fresh water sources.
Young boys pick up empty plastic bottles floating on a river in Bacoor, Cavite, south of Manila, as a way to earn a living. Many rivers in Luzon are considered biologically dead because of industrial and municipal pollution.