BEFORE
Before the mass urbanization of Manila, the Pasig River served as an important means of transport; it was the city's lifeline and center of economic activity.
Some of the most prominent kingdoms in early Philippine history, including thekingdoms of Namayan, Maynila, and Tondo grew up along the banks of the river, drawing their life and source of wealth from it.
When the Spanish established Manila as the capital of their colonial properties in the Far East, they built the walled city of the walled city of Intramuros on the southern bank of the Pasig River near its mouth.(en.Wikipedia.org)
NOW A DAYS
After World War II, massive population growth, infrastructure construction, and the dispersal of economic activities to Manila's suburbs left the river abandoned. The banks of the river attracted informal settlers and the remaining factories dumped their wastes into the river, making it effectively a huge sewer system. Industrialization had already polluted the river.
In the 1930s, observers noticed the increasing pollution of the river, as fish migration from Laguna de Bay diminished. People ceased using the river's water for laundering in the 1960s, and ferry transport declined.
.org I By the 1970s, the river started to emanate offensive smells, and in the 1980s, fishing in the river was prohibited. By the 1990s, the Pasig River was considered biologically dead.(en.Wikipedia .org)that our environment are really changing and is really different before and to now a days due to the wrong deeds and abuse of the people to the environment. In order to bring the Pasig river to life there are programs that helps revive Pasig river to life again. Even the environment is really changing now a days there is a way to revive it again if all of the people will be discipline and will help in saving the environment.
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