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P400-m Calapan Water plan OKd

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CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro—The privately-owned Calapan Water, the lone water service provider here, is investing P400 million to improve its water supply system and benefit its present and prospective consumers in the provincial capital.

CW’s improvement and development action plan will generate an additional 15 million liters of fresh and potable water per day for its customers, management said during a presentation Friday.

“This is in line with Calapan Water’s commitment to accelerate major infrastructure projects and improve the delivery of water service,” explained CW president Roderick A. Ongcarranceja.

This project includes the construction of pipelines, finding new water sources, building a storage facility for additional water supply, constructing a treatment facility, and installing booster pumps to ensure sufficient water pressure in CW’s service areas.

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The additional 15 million liters a day would benefit up to 25,000 households and businesses here in Calapan City. So far, the water company has installed 14,600 connections in its serviced areas in 35 barangays.

Part of the plan is laying of 26.4 kilometers of additional transmission and distribution pipelines to deliver more water to CW’s existing service areas, as well as to expand to other areas in Calapan and reach more customers. Among the initial areas targeted are the outlying barangays of Managpi, Puting Tubig and Sapul.

At present, groundwater is the city’s main source of water, with five wells capable of producing a combined 9,000 cubic liters a day or 300 million cubic liters a month.

The CW’s water sources conform to the Philippine National Standards for Drinking Water, as shown by the latest bacteriological, chemical and physical examination conducted by the Batangas Water District laboratory.

Part of its improvement and development plan is to stop using “mechanical intervention” in pumping water from under the ground, said Eric Montelibano, CW vice president for corporate affairs.

“It means that since Calapan City and its environs are rich in free-flowing sources of fresh water, the CW will no longer use pumps to extract water, but to contain or store those free-flowing waters in huge water storage facilities and tanks,” he said.

Montelibano said the city government of Calapan, headed by Mayor Arnan C. Panaligan, and local business leaders have welcomed and expressed their full support to this initiative.

“It’s a bold move to step up development of the city. This will mean increased in business activities in almost all sectors of the industry, including retail, agriculture, tourism and others resulting in additional revenues for the city,” a prominent business leader told The Standard.

Ongcarranceja explained that since Calapan is a fast-growing city, the “vision of Calapan Water is to provide dependable water service and be a partner of the local government in accelerating the economic growth and development of the city.”

The project will ensure improved water service for Calapenos and is designed to provide adequate water supply to address the progressive development in Calapan City for the next five to 10 years and beyond, Ongcarranceja added.

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