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The Philippines is found between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea east of Vietnam. Its population has approximately reached 75 million with 57% considered urban and the remaining 38% below the poverty line. The economic growth that is accompanied by rapid industrialization and a growing population have put a lot of pressure on existing resources resulting into a variety of environmental problems. These environmental issues have been grouped into three parts by Anabelle E. Plantilla, Executive Director of Haribon Foundation:
a) brown - describes the pollution caused by industrial, urban, transport and energy sources and their single or collective impacts;
b) green - describes the environmental impacts caused by agriculture, deforestation, land conversion and the destruction of protected species; and
c) blue – describes all forms of water resources management.

I would be focusing on one of the major problems in the brown environmental issues which is the increasing......

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