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Manila Water now has 962,490 service connections in the East Zone

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Despite looming threats of strong El Nino, East Zone concessionaire Manila Water continues to install water service connections throughout its concession area. At the end of the first half of this year, total water service connections has already reached 962,490 of which 13,260 were installed in the first half of 2015 alone.

Of the total number of service connections, 90.38% are residential, 4.13% are semi-business while 5.07% and 0.42% are commercial and industrial accounts, respectively, serving 1,355,591 households in eastern Metro Manila and Rizal Province.

Manila Water OIC for Corporate Strategic Affairs Group and also Head of Corporate Communications Jeric Sevilla said more service connections are slated to be implemented particularly in the towns of Rizal as part the Company’s commitment to make potable water more accessible to the fringe areas.

Meanwhile, Manila Water continues to prepare its mitigation plans to cushion the impact of El Nino threats which may further intensify during the last quarter of the year as projected by the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA).

Manila Water is an Ayala-led concessionaire of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System that provides water and used water services to more than 6.3 million residents of parts of Quezon City and Manila, Marikina, Pasig, San Juan, Mandaluyong, Pateros, Makati, Taguig and Rizal Province.

Manila Water now has 962,490 service connections in the East Zone

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Despite looming threats of strong El Nino, East Zone concessionaire Manila Water continues to install water service connections throughout its concession area. At the end of the first half of this year, total water service connections has already reached 962,490 of which 13,260 were installed in the first half of 2015 alone.

Of the total number of service connections, 90.38% are residential, 4.13% are semi-business while 5.07% and 0.42% are commercial and industrial accounts, respectively, serving 1,355,591 households in eastern Metro Manila and Rizal Province.

Manila Water OIC for Corporate Strategic Affairs Group and also Head of Corporate Communications Jeric Sevilla said more service connections are slated to be implemented particularly in the towns of Rizal as part the Company’s commitment to make potable water more accessible to the fringe areas.

Meanwhile, Manila Water continues to prepare its mitigation plans to cushion the impact of El Nino threats which may further intensify during the last quarter of the year as projected by the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA).

Manila Water is an Ayala-led concessionaire of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System that provides water and used water services to more than 6.3 million residents of parts of Quezon City and Manila, Marikina, Pasig, San Juan, Mandaluyong, Pateros, Makati, Taguig and Rizal Province.

Bills payment to Manila Water made easy with Cebuana Lhuillier

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Manila Water East Zone Business Operations Group Director Ferdinand Dela Cruz (second from right) sealed the partnership with a handshake with Cebuana Lhuillier President and CEO Jean Henri Lhuillier as the water concessionaire’s latest payment facility partner. They are joined by Manila Water Information Technology Group Director Rodell Garcia (left) and Cebuana Lhuillier Vice-President Philippe Andre Lhuiller at the recently-held ceremonial signing in Makati City.

Customers residing in the East Zone of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System can now pay their water bills to Cebuana Lhuillier as the latter became the latest payment facility partner of Manila Water Company.

Manila Water East Zone Business Operations Group Director Ferdinand Dela Cruz said the company has always been looking for ways to make its services more accessible to its 6.3 million customers. Our partnership with Cebuana Lhuillier as our new payment facility partner will further make bills payment more convenient to our customers because of the number of Cebuana Lhuillier branches nationwide.

With the agreement, Dela Cruz said their customers can now pay their outstanding and current bills at all Cebuana Lhuillier branches.

Consul General of Republic of San Marino to the Philippines and Cebuana Lhuillier President and CEO Jean Henri Lhuillier also welcomed the partnership. Witnessing the signing of the partnership agreement are Cebuana Lhuillier Vice-President Philippe Andre Lhuillier and Rodell A. Garcia, Manila Water’s Information Technology Group Director.

Sri Lankan gov’t execs, ADB officials benchmark Manila Water

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Photo shows Manila Water Operations Group Director Geodino Carpio with ADB Alternate Governor to Sri Lanka and Secretary of Ministry of Finance and Planning P. B. Jayasundera and other delegates from the Asian Development Bank during a recent visit at the East La Mesa Treatment Plant in Quezon City.

Manila Water President and CEO Gerardo C. Ablaza, Jr. led officials from the East Zone water and used water service provider in welcoming government delegation from Sri Lanka spearheaded by ADB Alternate Governor to Sri Lanka and Secretary of Ministry of Finance and Planning P. B. Jayasundera, and officials from the Asian Development Bank in a recent visit to the concessionaire’s East La Mesa Treatment Plant in Quezon City.

Virgilio C. Rivera., Jr., Group Director for Corporate Strategy and Development shared the transformation story of Manila Water from a fledgling and underperforming utility in 1997 when it took over the operation and management of the state’s Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System into a world-class company through a combination of technical and social interventions backed up by the development of the firm’s human capital.

The visit was complemented by a tour of the East La Mesa Treatment Plant, Manila Water’s third water treatment facility providing water to the elevated areas of Rodriguez and San Mateo in Rizal and portions of Marikina. Operations Group Director Geodino V. Carpio briefed the foreign delegates on the plant’s operations, its role in promoting water stewardship, good practices in urban water management, among others.

ADB Alternate Governor to Sri Lanka and Secretary of Ministry of Finance and Planning P. B. Jayasundera was very appreciative of the visit and said, “Benchmarking best practices of water companies across the region, like Manila Water of the Philippines, provides valuable insights and knowledge that can best be used as case studies for countries with similar backgrounds, resources and problems.”

World Bank Financial Management team visits Manila Water’s beneficiaries

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Photo shows World Bank Financial Management team visited the Manila Water’s program beneficiaries in TUPREA I, Western Bicutan, Taguig City.

A financial team from the World Bank (WB) recently visited the beneficiaries of Manila Water’s flagship program dubbed as Water for the Community or “Tubig sa Barangay” project in Taguig City.

Manila Water East Zone Business Operations Group Director Ferdinand Dela Cruz said the team composed of financial management specialists visited the beneficiaries at TUPREA I, Western Bicutan, Taguig where they witnessed first-hand the benefits of the project meant to provide low cost but safe, potable and clean drinking water to urban poor communities in the East Zone Concession Area.

The team, whose members came from Indonesia, Cambodia, China, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand, was also briefed on the details of the project and how Manila Water was able to implement it with the objective of possibly replicating similar projects in their home countries.

“The World Bank officials were very interested in seeing the impact of the program to the community,” Dela Cruz said.

Prior to the project’s implementation, residents of TUPREA used to source their water from deepwells, while others had to buy poor quality water from vendors for as much as P25 per cubic meter.

With the implementation of the “Tubig Para sa Barangay” project, residents are now enjoying clean and potable water 24/7.

To date, Manila Water has also installed more than 300 service connections benefitting more than 300 families in the community.

Last year, the World Bank-administered Global Partnership for Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) recognized the “Tubig Para Sa Barangay” as one of the best innovative implemented programs at the GPOBA’s 10th Anniversary held in Washington DC. GPOBA is a World Bank-administered program which aims to improve delivery of basic infrastructure and social services such as water to the poor in developing countries, using Output-Based Aid (OBA) approaches.