File photo shows the Siruna Water Pumping Station in Antipolo City. Anticipating increased customer demand, Manila Water has ramped up system checks, as well as repairs, of its 40 reservoirs and 72 pumping stations in Metro Manila and Rizal. These assets are crucial for ensuring continued water service to its 7.6 million customers in the East Zone.
MANILA, Philippines – Manila Water has intensified measures to ensure the functionality and resilience of its water supply assets as customer water demand is still on the upswing this May with soaring heat indices reaching danger levels.
Anticipating the increased customer demand, Manila Water has ramped up system checks, as well as repairs of its 40 reservoirs and 72 pumping stations in Metro Manila and Rizal province.
These facilities are crucial for ensuring continued water service to its 7.6 million customers in the East Zone of Metro Manila and Rizal.
“The company is diligently checking our network’s active pumping stations and reservoirs and their corresponding appurtenances. In doing so, facility downtimes that would lead to adverse customer experience could be avoided. We are also asking for our customers’ understanding to bear with us when we carry out emergency or unforeseen repairs of our waterlines. On the other hand, scheduled maintenance works are done in the off-peak hours and with ample notices to communities to lessen the impact on our customers’ daily activities,” Manila Water’s Communications Affairs Group Director Jeric Sevilla said.
Earlier this year, the company commenced construction of its P1.4 billion pumping station and reservoir in Taguig City.
The facility, the Cayetano Pumping Station and Reservoir, would help ensure uninterrupted water supply to over 1.6 million customers in Pasig, Pateros, and Taguig once completed in 2025.
Over in Binangonan, the company is set to complete the P45-million Darangan Pipe Bridge along Manila East Road this month.
It is designed to improve water access to over 20,000 households in Angono, Binangonan, Cainta, Taytay, and some areas in Pasig City.
These water facility and network refinement activities, coupled with various water supply augmentation projects, are part of the company’s big push for water security in its concession area especially with the current El Nino being experienced in Metro Manila and other provinces.
“We also ask our customers to be partners in protecting our water supply by practicing responsible use of water and reporting street leaks to us. While the current level of our non-revenue water (NRW) is already one of the lowest in Asia at below 15%, this will help us keep our system losses in check,” Sevilla said.