World Bank exec: Loan for treatment plant

A WORLD Bank operations officer is encouraging the Cebu City government to apply for a loan to build a service treatment plant.

Gerardo Parco, Operations Officer of the Environment of the World Bank in the Philippines , said the organization could provide a concessional loan for the Cebuanos to treat the wastewater from the landfill and the septic waste.

“Write to us, tell us what your needs are,” Parco said during his speech on “ Innovative Wastewater Treatment Systems: The World Bank Experience” in the environmental Congress organized by the Environment Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (EMB-DENR 7) and the Pollution Control Association of the Philippines Inc. (PICAPI) yesterday.

Parco said the World Bank, which provides loans for projects on impoverished countries, would study their request.

The Inayawan landfill, which was ordered for closure last April by Cebu City, will also close the facility from receiving septic waste by July 12 due to the lack of service treatment facility to disinfect and rehabilitate the wastewater.

“It’s about time for Inayawan to be closed,” Parco said. /Reporter Candeze R. Mongaya