THE Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa), together with Prime Water Bacolod City, held a mangrove growing activity in Barangay Punta Tay-tay last February 12, 2021.
The activity aimed to build coastal sustainability by increasing mangrove forest cover at the shoreline of Barangay Punta Tay-tay and environmental conservation through rehabilitation of mangrove forest, Prime Water's Public Relations and Marketing Officer Jief Puntal said.
Participants of the activity were employees from Baciwa and Prime Water Bacolod City.
"The symbolism -- and the substantive significance -- of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on earth, and it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis," Puntal said.
Baciwa and Prime Water started the Joint Venture Agreement on November 13, 2020.
Caring for the environment is a lifetime duty and we need to give back to mother nature the care that she deserves for the future of humanity, Puntal added.