CONSUMERS of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) should not be the only ones who should conserve water, but also the water district itself by addressing its more than 30 percent water wastage, also known as non-revenue water (NRW).
CEBU City’s Buhisan Dam has now dried up, while the Metropolitan Cebu Water District’s (MCWD) other surface water sources have also been producing just a fraction of their normal capacity amid the drought caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon, translating to a loss of 63,000 cubic meters of water per day or 21 percent of the water district’s normal production.
THE struggle over the management of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) continues, but the camp of Jose Daluz III, chairman of the board of directors suspended by the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA), voiced willingness to meet with the LWUA-appointed officer-in-charge general manager, but only “as a person,” not as a general manager.
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+ December 29, 2020 DESPITE the lack of the necessary documents in the construction of the new Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC), which is obviously owned and operated by the Cebu City Government, the first three floors were opened on Monday night to cater to out-patients only. Cebu City Mayor Edgar Labella and Vice Mayor Mike Rama led the inaugural cutting of the ribbon.
The first three floors are expected to ease the very congested temporary hospital that is housed at the building of the Bureau of Fire and Prevention (BFP). To recall, the transfer of the hospital at the BFP building caused a rift between then Mayor Rama and the BFP officials.