East Zone concessionaire Manila Water Company, Inc. has started the construction of its 42nd sewage treatment plant, which will cost P4.2 billion to build. In a statement, Manila Water said it already broke ground for the construction of Mandaluyong West Sewerage System Project, which is...
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...
West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) has started providing its services to a neighborhood in Caloocan that has not been connected to any water utility for the last 24 years. In a statement, Maynilad recently connected Purok Biyaya in Barangay 167 of Caloocan City to its...
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...
Except for the quarterly Foreign Currency Differential Adjustment (FCDA), customers of Manila Water Company Inc. and Maynilad Water Services Inc. won’t have to worry about any other water rate adjustment for the whole year of 2021. This was according to Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System...
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:...
Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) Administrator Emmanuel Salamat said the amended water concession deals would be released before end of this year, almost a year after since President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to come up with a new water concession...
Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) and Manila Water Company, Inc. are forgoing some water rate increases they are qualified to implement in the coming year, including the next tranche of the rate rebasing adjustment as well as the mandated Consumer Price Index (CPI)...
It is crunch time for the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System-Regulatory Office (MWSS-RO) in terms of looking into the tariff impact of pending water project proposals — such as Manila Water's P14-billion Laguna Lake East Bay project — and securing the public approval for these. (MWSS /...
To spare Maynilad Water Services Inc. and Manila Water Company Inc. from further financial trouble, the government could only give one last set of reliefs to the respective customers of these water utilities, which includes a 30-day grace period for unpaid bills from August 4 to 18. For the unpaid...
It will be detrimental for Maynilad Water Services Inc. if the government decides to extend the moratorium on the issuance of water service disconnection notice to consumers, a Maynilad official said. As for Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) Chief Regulator Patrick Ty, he said a...
