Various chemicals flow into the Iloilo-Batiano river system from places such as poultry farms and malls.

A project seeks to look into how safe these waters may be especially for fish that we eat.

Let's find out more from Norwell Bautista of the National Research Council's Division of Chemical Sciences.

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