Published April 22, 2021, 4:30 PM
Even without a new concession agreement (CA) with Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS), Maynilad Water Services Inc. already began preparing for its five-year plan under the next rate rebasing period.
In a virtual briefing on Thursday, Maynilad President and Chief Executive Officer Ramoncito Fernandez told reporters that “formal communications” between the company and the government regarding the former’s new CA are still ongoing.
Despite this, he said the company already “started drafting our five-year plan”, which will dictate the company’s investments from 2023 onwards and their corresponding water tariff rate increases.
“It requires a lot of planning and data and checking the actual results of what we are doing,” he further said.
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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In a text message, retired Lt. General Emmanual Salamat confirmed to Manila Bulletin that he is no longer the MWSS administrator and that former Police Deputy Director General Reynaldo Velasco has regained the position. Velasco now serves as concurrent MWSS chairman and OIC administrator.
The agency went through a management shake-up in 2019 after the Ayala-led and MWSS concessionaire Manila Water Company Inc. caught itself in a supply mess that resulted in millions of its customers having low to no water supply for several weeks.
This prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to ask MWSS to release water for Angat Dam that is good for 150 days to address the issue, to which Velasco responded that the President may have been misinformed about the situation.
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