WATER POLLUTANTS & THEIR FINAL SOLUTIONS

WATER POLLUTANTS & THEIR FINAL SOLUTIONS


CAROL JANE C. LANIBA
Student

&

SERLITA REANCHO
Student


MRS. QUEENIE SALAMANCA
Teacher



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Sacred Heart Academy
Third Year – St. Claire
Loon, Bohol, Philippines
September 27, 2010





Entry #2


WATER POLLUTANTS & THEIR FINAL SOLUTIONS


Question # 1. What are some water pollutants present near your locality?

Answer # 1-A. Answer: Pollutants of fresh water.
1. Garbage
2. Mining chemicals like mercury and cadmium
3. Factories besides the river
4. Fertilizer residue come rice field
B. What are the ways to minimize if not eradicate these pollutants?

Answer #-B. Pollutants of sea/salt water:
1. Dynamite
2. Oil
3. Gasoline
4. Garbage
5. Industrial waste
6. Nuclear waste

Question # 2: What are the ways to minimize or eradicate these water pollutants?

1. Stop much, if not all, of manufacturing.

Manufacturing has done many harmful things, to wit:
a) made people materialistic;
b) fed people with processed foods which produce all kinds of cancers, diabetes, cardio-vascular diseases;
c) drinks which contains chemicals such as soda, main cause of bone diseases (e.g., osteoporosis; bone cancer) and aspartame, main cause of diabetes; d) hence, , a shortened lifespan to almost half, e.g., 50 years or even shorter (some died in their 20s!),
e) through chemical preservatives, the city dwellers have found the way to prolong food-life without getting spoiled, thus, they found the way for people to stay away from farmlands and have food, and huddle in the cities;
f) there in the cities, they indulge in plenty of things and activities which are of the world, of the flesh, materialistic, which the apostle John described as those which please the physical senses, opposite to the spirit;
g) as net results: the cities destroy morality and spirituality with their vices and immoralities; destroy health of people with their manufactured goods; destroy also the freedom of the masses by their addictive chemicals which made our plants and livestock dependent to their feeds, fertilizers etc., our people to their drugs and medicines, thus, forcing people to support them with money and food, etc.
h) destruction of the farm, environment and the planet;

The single greatest destroyer of the things that are of great value to us (such as nature, environment, farms, health, families, character, morality, community, nationhood) is MANUFACTURING and the CITY.

2. Send all people to countryside and distribute land for farming. There is vast space in the countryside.

They have destroyed the countryside with its forests and farms, that this return to the province or countryside cannot be done instantly. Without miracle from God, it can only be done gradually and through cooperation of many stakeholders.
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True agrarian reform where all families, including the newly married, will have say, 3 hectares of land for farming/gardening, etc. will be a must.

Government supporting the creation of farms including the terracing, hauling and filling of soil, creation of organic fertilizer and “organic” soil until the place is ready for occupation, is invaluable.

Without government participation, this can be done by private capital and initiative but more slowly.

One good scenario is this:

A squatter family in Manila. They earn their living by collecting garbage. The President of the Philippines grants this landless family with a new 3-hectare land in a government timberland in central Bohol. The President orders both the government army engineering battalion and their counterparts, the NPAs, to lay down their arms for awhile and go to work for the sake of this family, e.g., clear the still forested 3-hectare lot. The President orders the DENR and DAR to issue a Land Title. The President hires a team of architect, engineers, landscapers, agriculturists, etc. to do the zoning of the lot, planning of the infrastructure including a house. Their mission: To put the following parts in proper and aesthetic order/arrangement: lumber trees (small forest); rice and corn field; place for the livestock; space for pasture; orchard; vegetable garden; herbal garden; flower garden; house plaza; house; etc.

A master plan and a master map are to be submitted to the President.

When these are ready, namely: the house, the farms, etc., the father of the poor family, and older male children are sent to the site to start cultivation for short term and long-term plants. The President of the Philippines then sends free rice and viand and allowances etc, to both the working men sent to Bohol and their loved ones still left behind in Manila.

After a few months, or when the food production is enough, the government stops all support, except the ones which may be needed every now and then. And the government tells the army battalion and the NPAs: you may resume fighting, if you so desire!

Some NPAs and government soldiers get the hint and request the President of the Philippines to avail the same Balik-Bukid or Back-to-the-Province program, which is for everybody.

As of this date, the President has frozen all multi-million projects for roads, bridges, public buildings, basketball courts, barangay halls, and the likes which projects have no ending as long as those in the government have deep pockets! The President focuses on emptying the cities and in sending all citizens to restore the strengths and capabilities of the countryside, which formerly fed well our ancestors.

So there is plenty of money now for Back-to-the-Province program which is also a Nanay-Balik-Bahay program where mothers now take charge in the fight against drugs after the Police and the Mayors have failed and in the fight for love!


End of scenario.

That is our vision. Of course, the shift back to the countryside is difficult without miracle from our heavenly Father. It will take time to reverse the present situation where millions of people come down to the cities, leaving their rural or countryside homes empty…even forever.

According to a world study, the number of people going to the cities every year in the entire planter, is so many that they are equivalent of 25 new cities that must be created every year if we are to avoid overcrowding, congestions, pollution, poverty, immoralities, crimes, and all those other negative things in the cities.

But where are those 25 new cities every year? There is none!

3. Go back to simple living without the modern things that cause pollutions and which costs have pressured members leave their families to work in the cities and abroad;

4. Go back to the organic farming. These three: (a) Organic farming, (b) equitable land distribution and (c) simple lifestyle will guarantee sufficiency and will feed each family and stop the scattering of families. Excess of capitalism (such as allowing very large tract of lands to be owned by only one family), the resulting lack of farmland for the average family and high materialistic ambitions fed by false educators (e.g., expensive appliances, expensive living) force members to leave poor family, thus, scatter.

5. Stop all chemicals. For families living in a new world of fresh-from-farm or garden, there is no need of chemicals to preserve these fresh foods, or to enhance their flavorings or fortify them with vitamins using chemicals. Chemicals are not only pollutants of the environment, but are also the prime pollutants of our bodies, cause of diseases and death and consequent worse poverty!

6. Concentrate on living true Christianity which is opposite to present materialism.

Materialism is the error of end-time Christians that cause so many kinds of pollution: pollution of the environment or planet, pollution of the body (chemicals filling the body causing diseases), pollution of the mind, pollution of the heart, etc.

True living Christianity is love for the planet, love for the environment or creation of God, love for one’s own body, thus preserving health, love for one’s soul and heart and so not allowing them to get polluted or corrupted.

There is no pollution in true Christianity. The very fact that there is plenty of pollutions of all kinds in the world today means that Christianity has gone down to so much corruption and degeneration! It is no longer true and pure!

True Christianity is simple, pure and unpolluted living.

7. Focus education on talents development, organic farming and true Christian living.

While they is a need for general education including English, Math, Science, there is the great need to pinpoint the talent/s of the child as early as possible and to start its development right away, wasting no time; it is in the talent/s where the parents and educators must focus and use it to be the path where the child will concentrate his/her life of service and earning a living!

For example.

If a child is gifted with music. When he/she is guided in this talent, chances are he/she will become like Charice Pempengko. As a matter of fact, Charice is the best present example of a child who has successfully focused on her talent, even only one talent. Just one talent is enough – more than enough to earn a living and even become rich while making the people happy! Two talents are too much. But there are those who have more than one talent (Matthew 25 & Luke 19 – Parable of the Talents and Pounds). Talent is the way to riches and independence. Schooling is the way to employment and poverty [controlled income]. Why are the educators blind to this? And parents too!

• So English et al are just aids [and should be treated as such] to help the child communicate well. But the front subject – the major subject -- must be the specific talent which the child is gifted by God. Present formal education delays or even often hinders talent development; thus, hinders the fulfillment of God’s will revealed in the Parable of the Talents and Pounds (Matthew 25 & Luke 19) .

Like what happened to a few like Charice, when talent development is the real focus, not English, poverty is no longer an issue. A child can stay in his mountain barangay and compose beautiful music and lo! he can sell them to the whole world via internet. Even if their house is on a rock and around there is no soil but stones, he can still survive and support his parents from his earnings as a great composer of good music!

See?

This is where our schools are missing – have failed!

So there is no need to go abroad and become maids or prostitutes!

By just imitating what the mother of Charice has done as a focused trainor of her own daughter, we can prevent poverty from scattering us!!

Then, there will be no pollution because there will be no more people coming down to the cities to flock and to pollute it!

8. We are implementing true Love for our neighbor, e.g., plants, trees, animals, (yes, they are our neighbors – non-human neighbors ) by protecting , nurturing , preserving and restoring our environment.

These are the general and among the most important tasks that we must do to eliminate pollutions in our world and planet.

These general tasks will help us have the correct and right perspective in our mind and heart.

And as soon as we have the right perspective in our mind and heart, doing the following specific tasks will just follow easily:


1. Stop garbage that do not decompose and that pollute our environment and body;
2. Stop mining that use chemicals like mercury and cadmium;
3. Stop factories that throw liquid and solid pollutants into the river;
4. Stop inorganic fertilizers which give off residue (such as nitrates and nitrites which can cause breast and cervix cancers) that pollute our rice field and into our waters;
5. Stop dynamite fishing;
6. Do away with fossil fuel (e.g., oil or gasoline) and replace it with renewable energy such as wind, solar, etc.
7. When manufacturing is stopped, then, there is no more industrial waste
8. In addition to manufacturing, the advancement of military is mainly the cause of nuclear waste. When peace comes, then, no more nuclear waste will pollute our planet.
9. and so on and so forth!


Epilogue:

We can say that these are changes that our government, business and schools and even our churches cannot do or many of them do not wish to do, because these changes will mean the end of their money-making activities or businesses. But if they let God be their guide, they can shift to pro-life, pro-health businesses.

If we let the Lord Jesus Christ help us, then, we can expect these seemingly impossible things to come true before our eyes.

Our main preparation is to further educate ourselves with the FULL TEACHINGS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THESE TEACHINGS ARE LISTED IN www.franky1.com which post our Father’s messages and also in www.prophecies.org posted our Mother Mary’s work for our salvation!

Have a bright future because of this!

God bless you all.


At your service, we are



CAROL JANE C. LANIBA
Student



SERLITA REANCHO
Student



MRS. QUEENIE SALAMANCA
Teacher

Parents-Teachers Association (PTA) Coordination with LGU for the welfare of children (pupils and students)

LOON-SOUTH PTAF PAPER NO. 1

DATE : September 18, 2010

TO : Our Respected Loon-LGU Officials: Mayor, Vice-Mayor and members of Sangguniang Bayan

CC : via internet

FROM : Arnulfo Y. Laniba, president, Loon-South PTA Federation

RE : Appeal for support and cooperation to cope the sad signs of the times


Honorable gentlemen and fellow servants of God and our people:

Greetings!

I have observed that evils, dangers, and problems have been intensifying.

For examples:

Two weeks I ago, I went to the beach with my three young sons and a nephew, to practice swimming and back tumbling.

It was morning. Broad daylight.

A few meters from us, there were around 8 youths, about 5 of them were girls. I cannot be wrong to say they are high school students.

At first, one scene began to disturb us: they buried one of their female friends in the sand, whole body except the head, and drew female sex organ and breasts on the sand corresponding to the actual locations of these reproductive organs in the body. And then, one of the boys placed an artificial sand-penis on the artificial female sex organ made on the sand.

Since I was reading a book, I did not notice clearly what was in details. One of my boys called my attention to it by saying, “Papa, bastos o!” [Father, look, that’s indecent!”]

The youths continued to frolic, some of the girls went to the sea to swim.

We were only a few meters from them. I was not up for what would happen next.

The girls bathed in the waist-deep water. They were actually only about 10 meters from the shore where the boys were drinking some beer.

First, one of the girls who were immersed, she must be 15 years old, called the attention of the boys. To our dismay, she was waving her short pants! “She’s on her panties,” must be our immediate thought. “Hey, boys,” she shouted while waving it.

Her tone was that of trying to let them come over, not just to let them see what she was holding up in the air. My immediate reaction was, “This girl is egat [morally loose].”

What followed made my teenage boys howled: the other girl swung her panties up in the air, as if she would not allow the other girls to beat her!

Then, as if in competition, they waved their shirts and panties and pants! This meant to say they were totally naked, saved that they were immersed in the water!

I’ve never witnessed such blatant shameless manifestation of the present state of morality our children have already nowadays. I had never known that is how loose the moral is already.

I am sad that my fellow parents, who worked very hard to send their children to school and give them a better future, do not know what is taking place when their adolescent high school or college children asked permission to go to the beach with their friends. Or do most of them ask permission from their parents? Are not most of them doing things and going places while they keep their trusting parents believe them to be in school?

I am reminded of what one church is telling parents, quoting the verse from the Songs of Solomon: Do not allow sex desires to be awakened among your children before the proper time.

We, parents, being already experienced, already know that, as much as it is very dangerous, sexual desires are more powerful than the desire to study, desire to eat, desire to drink, to play, to watch TV, etc. This means to say that this can easily crowd and suppress the desires and goals that we first want them to fulfill, such as to be doing well in their school and to finally finish it with satisfactory performance even with honors, to have first a job and spend years to make it stable, while they grow in maturity in body, mind and emotion.

When sexual stories, texts, pictures, videos, thoughts and desires occupy the front, our children’s priorities will rumble and there is going to be confusion and disorder in their lives – disorder that we, as well-meaning parents earnestly oppose!

If, besides from drug addiction, there is one thing we want to prevent to happen in our children, upon whom we place much if not all of our hope, it is them to become “sex addicts” before the right time.

We know the results of “pre-mature sex addiction”: teenage pregnancy, school drop, marriage before graduation, dependence on parents for the milk of the newborn, etc. As we trace the line farther, we can find worse fruits of promiscuity such as adultery, and the likes.

One aunt cried when her only left daughter got pregnant 6 months before graduating from her BS in Computer Science course. Her years of raising pigs and working as part-time house-help of a neighbor and years of climbing up and down coconut trees to make tuba on the part of her husband, not to mention the other sacrifices, such as farming, etc.

Sex, if not wisely viewed and handled, is a fire – a dangerous fire. It can burn, hence, perform destruction. Much sufferings.

One of the sufferings this girl in our story caused, though not with her intention was this: Since she got married even before she could find her first job, she could not financially support her aging parents. In fact, she and her infant has to be partly dependent on the food and income of her parents, noting that her husband, a former school mate, was not yet stable in his job.

So, no matter how she and her mother and the other children would tell the old father not to climb the tall coconut trees anymore, he would not listen, not that he was not yet tired and knee-shaky, not that he did not want to rest. There were two successive storms at that time and he was told earnestly not to climb the coconut trees. He did not listen.

So, in one of those stormy and rainy days, one late afternoon almost to twilight, when the family members were gathered in the veranda resting and conversing after a hard day’s work, they heard a sound similar to that of a coconut fruit falling into the ground, but quite much louder.

They ignored it, thinking it was normal. But it wasn’t. For when one of their neighbors happened to pass by the already darkened spot, he heard a moan, and alas, he saw the old man lying helpless and groaning, but who could not call loud enough for help. He had been lying there for half an hour beside the coconut tree from off he fell! His neck and back were broken.

They rushed him to the hospital. The local hospital refused to accept him and they were advised to take the patient to the city hospital. He did not spend long there; he died.

My question is: Had his youngest daughter, the only one who has finished college, not married early (she married before her graduation), and could have earned enough to support her old parents, sending to them her earning every month, would he still insist with coco-tuba gathering – would he continue to climb the tall coconut trees with his shaking weakening limbs? Or would he not proudly retire and enjoy her daughter’s remittance as her return-love to a loving old father?

Many parents are too shy to ask or demand return-help from their children. But, we must admit, most of them – most of us - expect it or hope for it especially when they [we] have no one to turn to in their [our] old age.

During some of my private and silent reflections, I can say that my uncle would not have fallen off the coconut tree had my cousin observed the proper timing of her life. For as the book of Ecclesiastes says, There is a proper time for everything.

There is a proper scheduling.

A time for study. A time for work and build a stable career, not just temporary jobs. A proper time for marriage. A proper time for sex. As we are taught, sex must be ideally long after graduation and within marriage.

And I think I have listed them in the proper order. If and when our children do sex before finishing their studies and before building a stable jobs, then, some bad things will happen to them or to their parents, etc.

Not always in our consciousness, but it is true that for not doing some thing right, or for not proceeding with life at the right timing, we do contribute to the demise of some loved ones – persons who of all people we do not want to lose!

And then, it’s going to be too late!

It’s very painful.

So, we, parents, or more precisely, we of the PTA, feel it as our duty to promote information, facts, knowledge, enlightenment, understanding, comprehension and wisdom and do motivations along this line so there will be happiness, stability, health and long life in every family, yes, in every family.

This is just one example of the many things and duties that the PTA feels it must either initiate or support other sectors including the government with the single goal in mind: TO MOLD CHILDREN WHO ARE WISE AND LOVING.

There are pending problems – overdue problems – that we need to address. Included in the list are: increasing cases of wrong sex prioritization, if we may call that as such; drug addiction; education and job mismatch which leads to unemployment, underemployment and poverty; negative influences that can destroy the body (health), mind and heart; growing hopelessness, lose of the right direction, low IQs and the likes – all of these produce bad character, mediocre mind and skills – all in all factors of becoming a weak, poor, miserable nation, a nation full of vices, crimes, infightings, diseases and deaths.

This is the last thing I dream of for my beloved country!

I believe it is the same with you. And here, we cannot wash our hands like Pontius Pilate and excuse ourselves, not to get involved. The bad influences – the sins, the vices, the crimes are making more number of criminals every day! -- more beggars each day! -- more prostitutes each day! -- more husband-grabbers each day! – more thieves each day! – more kidnappers-for-ransom each day! – more killers each day!

And we cannot say, “I can make my family safe by building high walls – even iron bars – around my house”?!

If you do that, then, you are converting your place into another New York: Good citizens hide inside their homes which are like prison cells surrounded and protected by high walls and iron bars; while the criminals, the drug addicts, the rapists, the thieves roam around freely outside, in the streets, etc.!

You call that freedom?

You call that progress?

You call that safe?

The time to act as responsible Christians who love their neighbors as themselves is now. We must help the poor so they would not turn into beggars to fret us later, or into prostitutes to transfer STDs and AIDS to unwary wives via their husbands, or into grabbers of husbands and breakers of marriages and peaceful families; or into thieves thereby putting our properties and business in constant danger; or worse, into kidnappers for ransom or even killers!

We, who can do something, must approach this problem while our kids are still young and teachable – malleable – moldable -- guidable. When the branches are old, they will no longer bend towards the right direction we want them to take.

We, as parents, teachers and leaders, must guide our children with both WISDOM OF THE MIND AND LOVE OF THE HEART. For it is with the mind and heart that the enemy makes a devil as it is also with the mind and heart that God makes men into angels.

This, we, of the Loon-South Parents-Teachers Association, take this to heart. And we enjoin you, you who are serving in the LGUs. Your positions of power may be temporary; you may not get reelected too many times, but mind you, you will always be either parents and/or teachers forever – of your own children, or your own grandchildren and others.

So, it is with humility to express to you the present need of our association for funds to support our monthly meeting, e.g., fares of school PTA presidents, food or snacks.

And it is with pleasure to thank you in advance whatever kindness you can give us.

However, at the end of the term, I still can say that it is not mainly by monetary resources can we do all this. We can solve the problems without money. We can meet – we can hold monthly meetings without funding. We can walk to our meeting place, if we want to. But we admit that an LGU support in this area will mean that you are in our side, meaning: that you are dedicated to the proper upbringing, protection and development of our children who will then become the responsible citizens or even leaders to take your place once you/we will be retired.

And here we ask and choose: Which kind of successors do we want to look after our welfare when we are old as well as the safety of our grandchildren: wise and loving leaders and citizens or criminals?

If we want the future society to be filled with wise and loving, responsible citizens and leaders, then, it is up to us to mold them NOW!

We cannot wash our hands and excuse ourselves. We will be there still: to suffer or to enjoy the results! We will still be living when that society and generation takes over. We cannot escape the fruits of our sowing. What we sow now, in our children, we will reap – be it bad or good, bitter or delicious.

We must go beyond our own family and reach out to them who are in need. The poor in material things, in knowledge as well as the less loved, must receive what they need abundantly from us, who are the “haves”, so they will grow into men and women with good minds, with good hearts and strong bodies, able to support and build and sustain a better society, not a degenerating one.

The future is built today.

The name of our children is TODAY.

We cannot wait for tomorrow. TOMORROW will be too late. Because the enemy of life has been at work already for too long – they have the advantage of mileage and volume of works done – e.g., they had already well-installed the establishments, the systems, made strong connections with many in authorities, to operate their wicked schemes effectively, with the aid of technology, organization and mass media, while we, the good men have been doing nothing beyond our respective family. Remember: the best way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

So, to us, it is EITHER NOW or NEVER! We cannot say, “Better too late than never!” It may not even be “It is never too late”!

We have to strike while the iron is hot. It is NOW or NEVER. It is now must the full awareness and awakening begin. When our children are grown-up or when there are too many mad men and loose girls around, or when too many of our men have become women like them in Sodom and Gomorrah, then, it will be too late.

The story of Sodom and Gomorrah was not handed to us, down here many centuries later, if not for its super-important universal lesson. What is the lesson? The lesson is: When the number of righteous people dwindled so much while the number of wicked perverted people increase in proportion, then, the cup of wickedness is filled to the brim, even has overflowed, and the people is ripe for punishment! It’s time for cleansing.

The whole area was not only composed of the two cities of Sodom and Gomorrah; there were a total of ten cities. And therefore, there must be millions of people inhabiting those places. But look, Abraham was asking God what if there were 50 people who remained righteous, should God push through with His planned destruction? No, God assured Abraham. What about if there were only 40? “No, I will not push through,” God said. What if only 30 or 20 or 10? “For the sake of at least 10, I will not destroy it.” Sadly, only Lot and his 2 daughters were counted righteous. Their number did not reach the minimum, hence, Sodom and the 9 cities were destroyed.

Can we reverse the trend? Can we increase the number of righteous? Can we add our names to the list? We have had enough experience and number of years on earth, so probably, we can volunteer to be among those who work for the spreading of righteousness and the conquering of evils.

Let’s make the firm decision, first as parents, as teachers, as leaders and above all, as mature children of God.

More and more damages and harms are happening as the hours roll by. We cannot wait. In our apathy, we see frightening scenes pass by our eyes, real ones, even if sit down in front of our TVs. Just this week, three men are reported to have entered a boarding house and rape a young girl – and that they did in broad daylight. Criminals are no longer afraid to be seen or to be caught by the police. Criminals are getting more and more daring. They no longer need the night to cover their wicked acts. Many of those in the police or authorities do the cover up. So, they commit crimes during daytime!

So, dear Mayor, of loving and caring character, please lead the local government of our town, Loon, to the right paths, not just for temporal welfare, but as fellow believers of Christ, also to make all “fit” to enter His promised soon-coming Kingdom. That’s the common goal – the common destiny we are all aiming for, but seem to be missing.

Consider this to be an appeal not only for our local town, but for the rest of the nation and the world. Let this paper circulate to as far and as wide as it can, will and may….to Africa, to Asia, to Europe, to the Americas… for our local concern is also a universal and global one!

So, may YeHoWaH our God and Father, stamp His seal of approval, support and blessing to our humble effort,

Respectfully yours, and in service to Christ and our fellowmen,


Arnulfo Yu Laniba
PTA Federation President,
Loon-South District, Bohol Province, Philippines
Email: cocoy777@yahoo.com
Cell phone No.: 0910-9158-369

Note: To fellow PTAs, you can access a copy of this paper online at www.PTA-Paper-1.blogspot.com Feel free to add, refine, or expand this paper provided you stay on the proper context. And we will appreciate if you can also furnish us a copy of your revision/version. Spread the paper. Circulate the idea. Promote this good cause. Furnish as many responsible citizens and leaders as you can.

This is just the start. So keep in touch.





ARNULFO YU LANIBA
PTA Federation President,
Loon-South District, Bohol Province,
6327 Philippines
Email: cocoy777@yahoo.com
Cell phone No.: 0910-9158-369
Website: www.PTA-Paper-1.blogspot.com
Source of Christian education research: www.franky1.com