Maynilad Water Services Inc. will spend at least P2 billion to implement five programs to alleviate the water problem within its concession area in Metro Manila.
Maynilad president Ramoncito Fernandez said in a news briefing the five mitigating measures were meant to 233 million liters per day of water to its current supply of 2,000 MLD water and 300 MLD from Putatan water treatment plant.
Maynilad expanded the production of Putatan Plant 2 to 150 million MLD from 100 MLD and increased the output of Putatan Plant 1 to 160 MLD from 150 MLD.
It also reactivated the decommissioned deep wells that would add 52 MLD by next month.
Maynilad said it was working to reduce non-revenue water to recover 94 MLD by February 2020 and started to tap small dams in Cavite and install mobile treatment plants to add 27 MLD to its current supply by April next year.
Fernandez said Maynilad started to implement water interruption in some areas because of reduced water allocation from Angat Dam.
The water level in Angat Dam was at 188.34 meters, still below the year-end target of 210 meters”•the level required to ensure adequate supply during the dry months.
Based on the simulation conducted by Maynilad with National Water Regulatory Board, Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System and Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, Angat Dam’s water level would be between 185 and 189 meters.
“We support the call for new water sources like Kaliwa. If he government has approved our previous proposals for them to build Laiban and Agos River by 2016, Laiban should have been operational but unfortunately that has not been approved by the previous administration and this is one the reasons why we have supply shortage,” Fernandez said.
Fernandez said Maynilad continued to replace oil pipelines to further reduce its NRW. Maynilad targets to reduce its NRW to 20 percent by 2022 from the current 39.1 percent.
Fernandez said the company would spend roughly P20 billion to replace old water pipe.
