The private sector's takeover of water districts often results in job losses to government employees, something that worries the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA). LWUA Administrator Jeci Lapus said that because of the joint ventures (JV) between private companies and state-owned water...
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...
Prime Water Infrastructure Corp., a company owned by the family of Senator Cynthia Villar, has already taken over “100 water districts and counting” nationwide, a top official from Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) said. LWUA Administrator Jeci Lapus said that of the more than 500...
Launched in partnership with Waves for Water Philippines, ‘Together for Water’ is now on its fourth year CLEAN WATER, CLEAR INTENTIONS Discovery Hospitality Corporation in partnership with Waves for Water Philippines, distributed water filters to residents of riverside communities Despite being...
The Philippines and Hungary signed three memorandum of understanding and agreed to push further bilateral economic relations with targeted sectors for cooperation, particularly startups, at the recent Second Session of the Philippine-Hungarian Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation held in Makati...
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...
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...
Water service interruptions within some parts of Metro Manila may last until Sunday after the turbidity level of raw water in Ipo Dam rose due to Typhoon Ulysses. In a text message, Jennifer Rufo, head for stakeholders communications office of Maynilad Water Services Inc., said as per the estimate...
Manila Water Company reported a 24 percent decline in consolidated net income to P3.2 billion in the first nine months of 2020 from the P4.19 billion earned in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said that, excluding the one-offs, core income...
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)...
Laguna Water, a subsidiary of Manila Water Company, now uses salt as the main ingredient in the production of environment-friendly and cost-effective solutions for water treatment and disinfection. ...
