RIVER PLANNING • City’s main drainage outlet is the

Abacan River
A N G E L E S C I T Y, PA M PA N G A • Well drained and flood-free

• RIVERBANK EROSION
- due to the absence of slope protection
and river training works.
- In view of such, the comprehensive
development of Abacan river and its
tributaries into a linear park with mix
use (e.g. park, highway, commercial)
components must be prioritized
• LOCALIZED FLOODING
- the capacity of the existing drainage
and flood-water canals is no longer
enough to accommodate the peak flow.
Thus, localized flooding during rainy
season or after a heavy downpour
becomes ordinary.
- According to the initial findings of the
ongoing NWRB-JICA Project in the
Pampanga river basin, Angeles City will
reach the critical level of water supply
by 2025. By that time, demand will
overtake the supply. To address this
concern, the Abacan reservoir multi-
purpose project and the Sapangbato
watershed development project may be
simultaneously developed the earliest
time possible.
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A N G E L E S C I T Y, PA M PA N G A
WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Local Ordinances on Water Quality Management.
1. City Ordinance No. 343, series of 2014 otherwise known as
Water Quality and Septage Management Ordinance
mandates the City Mayor to organize Multisectoral City
Water Resources Management Board.
2. Executive Order No. 24, series of 2014. An order
organizing the Angeles City Water Resources Management
Board and have the duties and responsibilities to conduct
water sampling, enforcement of anti-pollution laws and
advise the city government on policy requirements to
safeguard water resources in the city.
Strategies
A. Reforestation and rehabilitation of Sapangbato Watershed by involving
private organization and coordination with DENR’s greening project.
B. Require all factories, commercial establishments and institutions to have a
rainwater harvesting system.
C. Establish a database on groundwater table.
D. Sustain the clean-up drive along major river systems.
E. Forge partnership with private sectors and NGAs to finance the construction
of communal toilets.
F. Full implementation of City Ordinance No. 343, series of 2014 – “An
Ordinance Providing for the Water Quality and Septage Management System
in Angeles City.”
G. Enforce all factories and commercial establishments with large volume of
effluents to secure a discharge permit from EMB before the issuance of
business permit.
PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS
A. Sapangbato Watershed Rehabilitation, Preservation and Protection Program
B. One Million Trees Program
C. Rainwater Harvesting System
D. Establishment of Monitoring Wells and Groundwater Management Project
E. Preparation of the Metro Clark Integrated Watershed Management Plan
F. Implement Angeles City Creek Total Clean-Up Project
G. Establishment of an Inter-Barangay Bantay Ilog Kontrasa Basura Task Force
H. Construction of Communal Toilets
I. Septage Treatment and Sewerage System Development Project
J. Enactment of an Ordinance mandating factories and establishments with
large volume of effluents to secure a Discharge Permit from EMB prior to the
issuance of business permit
K. Information Education Campaign
L. Institutionalize Incentive Schemes and or strategies for well-performing
establishments in terms of water quality management
 LIFESTYLE
DEMOGRAPHICS

AETA PEOPLE
• temporary shelters made of
It is estimated that there are sticks driven to the ground and
about 20,000 to 30,000 Aeta covered with the palm of
people living in the Philippines. banana leaves
• live in houses made of
bamboo and cogon grass

LANGUAGE PRACTICES
All Aeta communities have adopted the language • Men make armlets. They
of their Austronesian Filipino neighbors. These also produce raincoats
include, in order of number of speakers, Mag- made of palm leaves.
indi, Mag-antsi, Abellen, Ambala, and Mariveleño. • Aetas are skillful in
weaving and plaiting.
• They are also good
RELIGION
in hunting.
• Monotheistic
• Animist MUSIC
• Polytheistic The Aeta have a musical heritage
• Evangelicals consisting of various types of agung
• Jehovah’s Witnesses ensembles
• The Aeta, Agta or Ayta are indigenous
people who live in scattered, isolated ART
MEDICINES mountainous parts of Luzon, Philippines. • A traditional form of visual art is
• Women are experts body scarification
in herbal medicines. • chipping of the teeth
• Aetas are found in Zambales, Tarlac,
Pampanga, Angeles, Olongapo, Panay,
Bataan and Nueva Ecija.
AETA COMMUNITY
A N G E L E S C I T Y, PA M PA N G A

• In Pampanga alone, Aetas are

scattered in the municipalities of
Floridablanca, Porac, Guagua and
Angeles.

A total of 12 families or 60 persons mostly Aeta kids and some elderlies were transported
back to upland villages in Capas, Tarlac after their shanties along Abacan River in
Barangay Balibago were demolished in time for the holding of the ASEAN Summit.