The on-going state-led massive watershed rehabilitation in the Metropolis' seven critical watersheds, including Angat, has surpassed targets despite the COVID-19 pandemic. A project report released over the weekend showed that over four million seedlings were already planted in some of the region's...
The Philippine government has released a revised set of water discharge protocols for Magat Dam, one of the biggest dams in Asia, to avoid a repeat of unprecedented flooding that drowned Cagayan province during the onslaught of Typhoon Ulysses last year. It was last week, during the congressional...
An aquaculture firm is now awaiting the approval of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) for its unsolicited proposal to breed and harvest fish and other seafood products in Pantabangan Dam, one of the largest dams in Asia. This, while the advocacy group Tugon Kabuhayan started pushing for...
The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) is hoping to finally issue the ‘notice’ to proceed’ for the construction of the P12-billion Kaliwa Dam after years of delay. In a text exchange, MWSS Administrator...
Despite the persistence of COVID-19 pandemic, which has been causing an increase in water consumption, government authorities and utility firms are confident that there will be no water crisis in the coming months, especially in summer. “We can assure of sufficient water supply for summer this...
Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) said it has “advanced” to the next step of the Certification Precondition (CP) process for the Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) for the P12-billion Kaliwa Dam. This was...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has turned over a newly constructed diversion dam to a group of farmers in Bohol province. The P4-million diversion dam in the town of Guindulman, Bohol is expected to boost the rice production of the Awihaw Lombog Farmers Irrigators Association, said Assistant...
Maynilad Water Services, Inc. will continue to implement rotational service interruption until Sunday (November 29) more than two weeks since Typhoon Ulysses made landfall in the country and brought a lot of mud to the La Mesa Treatment Plant. In a statement, Maynilad said it is “constrained”...
It has been a week since Typhoon Ulysses made landfall in the Philippines, but Maynilad Water Services Inc. has yet to resume its normal production level due to continued high turbidity level of raw water in Ipo Dam. Jennifer Rufo, head of corporate communications at Maynilad, said the sustained...
In the aftermath of Typhoon Ulysses, which submerged many areas in the metropolis, concerns were now raised about the forthcoming construction of the P12-billion Kaliwa Dam, which is feared to worsen the flooding in Rizal province and Metro Manila. Photo credit:...
The release of water on Magat Dam, one of the biggest dams in Asia, that contributed to the severe flooding in Cagayan has been announced, and that there's nothing else the government could have done to stop it, an official at the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) said in a phone interview....
West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) will install two modular treatment plants (MTP) in Cavite that would be enough to supply the needs of some 50,000 customers in the area. Tapping rivers in Cavite as an alternative raw water source is part of Maynilad’s initiative to...
