Published March 17, 2021, 7:26 PM
There will be no water shortage in Metro Manila and neighboring towns in Rizal, Bulacan, Cavite and Laguna until 2035.
But nearly 15 years of abundant water supply may still be cut to just two years – 2021 and 2022 – if the construction of the Kaliwa Dam, designed to augment the current Angat Dam water source, is not completed as scheduled.
Metropolitan Waterworks Sewerage System Administrator Reynaldo Velasco assured the House Committee on Metro Manila Development that sufficient water supply will be experienced until 2035 as indicated in the potable water roadmap the MWSS submitted to President Duterte.
“I can categorically tell you that if we follow the program that we started, we will be assured of enough water until 2035,” he said when asked by Quezon City Rep. Precious Hipolito-Castelo to explain what the road map is all about.
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