Manila Bay and Laguna de Bay

Today’s Image of the Day comes thanks to the European Space Agency and features and overhead look at Manila Bay and Laguna de Bay. The photo was taken by the Sentinel-2A satellite and shows a piece of the city of Manila in the upper left.

Also visible are two bodies of water with distinctly different colors. On the left is Manila Bay, which has a much darker blue color due to its much greater size and depth. Manila Bay is also known as a “pollution hotspot” with very poor water quality due to runoff carrying sewage, pesticides, and fertilizers.

While Laguna de Bay is much smaller in size with a maximum depth of 4 meters, it still receives its share of pollution. In fact, the image shows two black plumes of water pollution emptying into the bay from the Taguig and Pasig rivers.

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By Rory Arnold, Earth.com Staff Writer

Source: ESA