Ways and Means of SETTLING in Pangas, Bantayan, Dgte City

1. Title: Ways and Means of Settling in Pangas, Bantayan, Dumagute
City
Introduction
Environmental Capacity or Carrying Capacity of a specific area is the
numbers of individuals of a species that can survive in that are over time. In most
population, four broad categories of factors interact to set the carrying
capacity for a population. These factors are: (1) Availability of raw materials, (2)
the availability of raw materials, (3) the accumulation of waste products and
their means of disposal, and (4) interactions among organisms. The total of all of
these factors acting together to limit population size in known as environmental
resistance, and certain limiting factors have a primary role in limiting the size of a
population. In some cases, these limiting factors are easy to identify and may
involve lack of food, lack of oxygen, competition with other species, or disease.
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There a several environmental capacities experienced by different
countries where food is in short supply, agricultural land is already being
exploited to its limit, disappearance of the natural ecosystems, drought, water
shortage and air pollution; the following environmental capacities are
experienced in the Soviet Union, Juarez, Mexico and Iowa, Missouri Error:
Reference source not found. In Philippines water resources become scarce in
some regions and seasons, in which 58% of the groundwater is contaminated.
The main source of pollution is untreated domestic and industrial wastewater.
Pasig River is one of the most polluted rivers in the world with 150 tons of
domestic waste and 75 tons of industrial waste dumped daily. The number of
Trees in Philippines dropped from 70 percent down to 20 percent due to the
illegal logging that caused extreme loss of our forest. Due to industrial waste and
automobiles, Manila suffers from air pollution affecting 98% of the population
annually, the air pollution causes more than 4,000 deaths. Philippines was then
warned by Senator Villar for the possible food shortage this due farmers
migrating to Metro Manila to find more lucrative jobs.
The deficiency of livelihood in campestral areas drives individuals to leave
their origin places and move into cities Error: Reference source not found. This is
true especially to most people in Pangas, Dumaguete City; the reason behind
their settlement is not just because they are native dumagueteños but mainly
because of inheritance and as well as livelihood. This simply shows the rising

2. economy of the city, however, more settlement means more population, and
more population means more necessity demand. Since there is a necessity
demand, the environment may not be able to supply everyone the desirable
provisions hence, a scarcity of resources is to be expected like lack of clean
water supply, clean air, and other vital necessities. This common issue of
environmental capacity is what leads to the formation of this study.
Dumaguete City, is a component city in the Philippine province of Negros
Oriental. It is the capital, principal seaport, and largest city of the province in
terms of population. It has an area of 33.62 km2
, and according to the 2015
census, it has a population of 131,377 people. The city is nicknamed The City of
Gentle People, and is referred to as a university city because of the presence of
four universities and a number of other colleges where students of the province
converge to enroll for tertiary education. Error: Reference source not found
Purok Pangas, on the other hand, is the research environment chosen by
the researchers found in Brgy. Bantayan, Dumaguete City. It is a small
community of people coming from various neighboring towns of the City. It
consist twenty to thirty households wherein each are put up near to each other,
and people are very approachable.
Method of the Study
The research method used in the study is survey through structured
interview to the respective respondents of Pangas, Bantayan. Structured
interviews are, essentially, verbally administered questionnaires, in which a list of
predetermined questions is asked, with little or no variation and with no scope
for follow-up questions to responses that warrant further elaboration.
Consequently, they are relatively quick and easy to administer and may be of
particular use if clarification of certain questions are required or if there are likely
to be literacy or numeracy problems with the respondents. Error: Reference
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The purpose of the research interview is to explore the views and
experiences of the residents regarding to the ways and means of their
settlement. Qualitative methods, such as interviews, are believed to provide a
deeper understanding of such phenomena than would be obtained from purely
quantitative methods, such as questionnaires.
A frequency count is done right after the data gathering wherein a

3. measure of the number of times that an answer occurs is being tallied.
Data Presentation
Reasonfor Settlement
Origin
Livelihood
Inheritanc
e
Figure 1.1
Usesof Water
Drinking
Bathing
Cleaning
Figure 1.2
20%
33.1%
40%
33.1%
33.1%
40%

4. Experience Scarcity of Water
Suply
Yes No
Figure1.3
Waste Segregation System
Burning
Burried
Collection
System
Figure 1.4
100%
20%
10%
70%

5. Food Supply
Fish
Meat
Processed Food
Vegetables
Figure 1.5
Sanitary of Waste Water
Tank
Open Drainage
Figure 1.6
37%
7.4%
22.2%
33.3%
10%
90%

6. Fuel used for Cooking
Firewood
LPG
Electricity
Figure 1.7
The data presented above shows the graphical presentation of the ways
and means of settlement of the residents in Purok Pangas, Bantayan,
Dumaguete City.
Figure 1.1 shows that the reason of their settlement is both because of
inheritance and livelihood with forty percent each, while those who are pure
dumagueteños are just twenty percent of the population.
Figure 1.2 illustrates the uses of water in Pangas. It appears that the water
is used equally in drinking, bathing, and cleaning by thirty three percent each.
Figure 1.3 shows that a hundred percent of people in Pangas experience
water scarcity.
Figure 1.4 indicates that the waste segregation system is seventy percent
collection, twenty percent in burning, and 10 percent in burying.
Figure 1.5 shows the daily food intake of the residents which is thirty seven
percent fish, thirty three point here percent vegetables, twenty-two point two
percent processed food and seven point four percent in meat.
Figure 1.6 shows that the ninety percent waste water of Pangas goes
down to open drainage and the remaining ten percent goes down to tanks.
Figure 1.7 shows the seventy percent of the respondents use firewood for
cooking, twenty percent use pressurized gas, and ten percent use electricity.
70%
10%
20%

7. Data Analysis
Mainly, the residing people of Pangas are not really pure dumagueteños
but inherited their family’s property and others are just purely because of
livelihood. Furthermore, data shows that the residents use water every day in
drinking, bathing, and cleaning equally. They do experience water scarcity at
times and they find it inconvenient for they have to fetch water from the pump
which really takes time and effort. Their waste segregation system is mainly done
through collection but others prefer burning their garbages or bury them. Their
food supply on the other hand, assumes to show that their food intake is
commonly more of fish and vegetables than of processed food. Their drainage
system is an open drainage for they have a creek in the community and that is
where all waste water goes off. Finally, the fuel they use for cooking is mainly
firewood and few say they use LPG or electricity.
Conclusion
Dumaguete is a rising city wherein lots of job opportunities are obtainable.
This is the reason why people from neighbouring towns set off from their origin
places and stay within the city. Such people end up in the same settlement and
make up small community of immigrants, thus, Purok Pangas an example.
Around forty to sixty percent of respondents say they came to Dumaguete for
livelihood, not to mention they settled in Pangas because also of the inheritance
they’ve received.
However, such settlement leads to population growth and population
growth leads to more consumption of resources and more waste management
issues. Therefore, the cause of the water scarcity the residents of Pangas
experienced is just because of the heavy population of Dumaguete city. Water
is a vital requisite for everyday living; hence, all of the people in the city will be
needing clean water supply and the capacity of the environment to supply
clean water to everyone at the same time is impossible.
In another aspect of this study, the food consumption of the residents of
Pangas is pointed out. The survey shows fish and vegetables are what mostly the
residents take in every day rather than processed food. This is actually because
the residents have personal vegetation in their front or back yard, and they are
also near ashore by the Silliman Beach which makes money for the fishermen of

8. Purok Pangas. Thus, basically, they do not experience food shortage because
they are provided by nature, as much as they also provide nature their time and
effort in taking care of the plants they grow. As for how they cook food, using
firewood more often like what the residents do is good for the environment
rather than using LPG or electricity.
Another one is the waste management system. Most residents of Pangas
do not have waste segregation system. However, their wastes are collected
once a week by a garbage collector, which helps in preventing the community
from dumping their garbage anywhere. But despite of the collection every
week, some residents still manage to burn or bury their garbage which is not
really advisable for the good of the environment.
Recommendations
Finding a place to live in especially in a city is not easy, may the person
be just a settler or not. Except that there is a need to consider the expense of
what will be spent for the land or place, there is also a need to take in
consideration the extent of resources that that certain environment could
provide, and the extent of flexibility it can perform towards the damage the
settler may beget as he settles in; hence, the environmental capacity of the
land.
The following are few suggestions of the researchers for the settlers in
Pangas, Bantayan, Dumaguete city:
• Since water scarcity is a common issue among the residents, the
researchers encourage them to practice water conservation. Used
water from washing of clothes is still applicable in watering the plants,
washing vehicles like motorcycles, and it may be used to flush the
toilet.
• Since the residents practice growing of plants for vegetation, the
researchers encourage the residents to continue doing so but without
the use of chemical fertilizers. Organic fertilizers are way better
because it is naturally from the environment and it does not harm the
health of a person.
• The use of firewood instead of pressurized gas or LPG and electricity

9. for it does not harm the environment and it helps in shortening off the
house bills.
• Preferring to the weekly collection is more proper than burning or
burying the garbage; both causes soil and air pollution.
• Take care of the environment, because what it provides is the mirror of
how people provides for it.

10. for it does not harm the environment and it helps in shortening off the
house bills.
• Preferring to the weekly collection is more proper than burning or
burying the garbage; both causes soil and air pollution.
• Take care of the environment, because what it provides is the mirror of
how people provides for it.