The banks of the river attracted informal settlers and remaining factories dumped their wastes into the river, making it effectively a huge sewer system.

It needs increased funding to provide, among others, more restored sites, an appropriate museum for the Intramuros Administration's collection, removal of informal settlers, further archeological assessment and so on ad nauseam.

Officials and experts said many of the dead were informal settlers living in shantytowns built on river sandbars made up of soft and unstable sediment.

The city has to cope-up with the fact that informal settlers would have to be considered in its development plans since 35 of its 84 barangays are lying along the coast of the city.

Persistent problems with informal settlers in the 1990s contributed further to PNR's decline.

During his term, the school was at the height of environmental and security problems concerning the informal settlers living near the school.

Overall expectations to encourage investment must be prioritized rather than enticing the growth of informal settlers (squatters) in the area which was perceived by many to be more of strategic political undertakings.

St. John's, Newfoundland, chartered by Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583; seasonal settlements ca. 1520; informal year-round settlers before 1620.

The barangay is also the home to informal settlers who occupy not only vast tracts of public and private lands but also riverbanks, creeksides, aqueducts and transmission lines.

He sits at local Inter-agency meetings in order to negotiate better houses and social services for the informal settlers, as well as livelihood programs for them.