Muntinlupa Mayor Ruffy Biazon is hoping that Maynilad’s new water treatment plant in the city will solve water service interruptions that are being experienced by residents.
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. led the inauguration of Maynilad’s Poblacion Water Treatment Plant (WTP) in Muntinlupa on Dec. 15.
“We hope this new facility will help address challenges in water supply in Muntinlupa,” posted Biazon on Facebook.
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. at the inauguration of Maynilad's new water treatment plant in Barangay Poblacion, Muntinlupa on Dec. 15. (Photos from Mayor Biazon's Facebook account)
Biazon joined the inauguration along with Muntinlupa Rep. Jaime Fresnedi, Poblacion Barangay Chairman Allen Ampaya, Environment Sec. Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga, Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) Administrator Leonor Cleofas, and Maynilad Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan.
According to Maynilad, the Poblacion WTP has a capacity to produce 150 million liters of water per day.
Biazon said this December, the plant is expected to produce 50 million liters per day, and by the first half of 2024, it will go on full operations.
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (PBBM) led today, December 15, 2023, the formal inauguration of Maynilad’s Poblacion Water Treatment Plant (WTP) in Muntinlupa City.
Maynilad said the new WTP cost P11 billion and it is the company’s third water treatment facility that gets raw water from the Laguna Lake.
It said the new plant will service about one million customers in Parañaque, Las Piñas, Muntinlupa, and Cavite.
“The additional water supply it produces will help to minimize service interruptions due to raw water quality shifts in Laguna Lake, which have been occurring with more frequency owing to the effects of climate change,” the company said in a press release.
It said the new treatment plant uses a multi-stage process of dissolved air flotation, cloth filter, biological aerated filter, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, and chlorination to ensure that the water from Laguna Lake passes the Philippine National Standards for Drinking Water (PNSDW) of the Department of Health.
Maynilad currently has two water treatment plants in Barangay Putatan, Muntinlupa, which produce 300 million liters per day.
The water concessionaire serves certain portions of Manila and Quezon City, Makati (west of South Super Highway), Caloocan, Pasay, Parañaque, Las Piñas, Muntinlupa, Valenzuela, Navotas and Malabon in Metro Manila; ities of Cavite, Bacoor and Imus, and the towns of Kawit, Noveleta and Rosario in Cavite Province.