One of my fondest memories of Sagunto is the waig. The main waterway which parallels the barangay. I remember carrying pots, blackened from being fired in wood stoves, down a muddy and slippery path towards the river to wash them and get them gleaming again. I remember going down to bathe while Lola or one of our aunts washed laundry. I remember catching (or trying to anyway) little fish, looking for shrimps and little crabs under rocks, and having picnics along it's banks. Despite the carabaos bathing in the same stream, I remember finding a waterhole deep enough for us kids to swim in. Those were great times, but sadly, I think they are gone.
This is the sad state of the waig (stream) now. I don't think anyone would even want to stick their toes in. People have used it to dump trash, they let runoffs from piggeries and poultries pour into the water and polluting it for everyone else. I hear there are no more frogs to be caught. Sayang. Nagimas pay met dyem ti tukak.
This stream, fed from mountain springs and runoffs from rains was, and could still be, one of the beautiful resources for Sagunto if only we learn to take care of it and preserve it.
This photo was taken from the bridge to Agat. I guess some people still do wash their clothes on the stream. If only they know what is being dumped into the water upsteam. Or maybe they do but have no other alternative.
The waters were still shallow when this photo was taken.
What are your memories of our little waig?
Monday, March 5, 2007
The Waig
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saan ka nga patanor ti sagunto ni dim napadasan ti naglaba, nagdidgos, nagis-is ti kaldero, nagtiliw ti kappi tukak ken bunog, adu ti kapadasan nga diak malipatan dita nga waig makapasangit makapakatawa ken dadduma pay. nakalkaldaang ti itsura nan gapu ta basuraan met gayamen sayang dagitoy simmaruno nga kapututan dida napadsan dagidiay nga panawen ngem saan pay nga naudi koma nga maikkan ti programa ti pannakadalos na uray pisu laeng.Damag ko di napan nga bulan babaen ti gayyem nga nagdistino dita nga Pastor nga plano gayam ti NCC nga mairaman diay proyekto da ket no kasta dayta makitkita yo nga bassit nga agay-ayos nga danum dita ladawan maawan to metten madadael metti kinaberde ti aglawlaw kabutbuteng amangan no maitulad to ti sagunto kas napasamak diay Ormoc, ili ti kabicolan nga nagaburan gapu ti kinabay-a ti tao, kitaen tayo bassit nga pagsiyaatan koma ti kaaduan ken naunday nga panawen ti programa ti aglawlaw saan nga pangbiitan laeng ta biag dagiti sumaruno nga kapututan ti panunuten tayo.
Amen, maam Eva. Agpaysu amen ta kunam. I hope our bario mates will learn to preserve this resource so that future children of Sagunto can also have the same care free experiences we had with our waig. It really almost made me cry to see the trash piled along its banks and just the smell of the piggery waste pouring into the water made my eyes tear.
Eva, ania diay NCC? and what do they plan on doing?
Northern Cement Corporation diya Labayug they are proposing for an expansion ket mairaman ti Sagunto dayta nga project.
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