West zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services Inc. said over the weekend the construction of the P11-billion Poblacion Water Treatment Plant is on track and may soon serve the water requirements of customers in Parañaque, Las Piñas, Muntinlupa and Cavite.
The water company said it started testing and checking the plant’s equipment and processes in preparation for partial operations by yearend.
It said the plant was 80-percent completed, and gradual commissioning commenced to ensure that it could produce an initial 50 million liters per day of potable water by December 2023.
Designed to produce 150 MLD at full capacity, the Poblacion Water Treatment Plant in Muntinlupa will help improve water pressure and supply availability for Maynilad customers south of Metro Manila.
The facility will help enhance service reliability, and provide additional supply for customers so their water service would not be affected despite raw water quality shifts in Laguna Lake, which has become more frequent due to climate change.
The Poblacion Water Treatment Plant is targeted for full operations by the first half of 2024.
Maynilad has two treatment plants in Barangay Putatan, Muntinlupa that draws water from Laguna Lake and produce a combined 300 MLD of water supply for around 1.7 million customers in the south. The Poblacion Water Treatment Plant will be Maynilad’s third facility to get raw water from the same source.
Maynilad is the largest private water concessionaire in the Philippines in terms of customer base. It is the concessionaire of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System for the west zone of the Greater Manila Area, which is composed of certain portions of Manila, certain portions of Quezon City, west of South Super Highway in Makati, Caloocan, Pasay, Parañaque, Las Piñas, Muntinlupa, Valenzuela, Navotas and Malabon all in Metro Manila; the cities of Cavite, Bacoor and Imus, and the towns of Kawit, Noveleta and Rosario, all in Cavite province.