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Manila Water Company, Inc. has the exclusive right to provide water and used water (wastewater) services [1] to over six million people in the East Zone of Metro Manila. [2] It is a subsidiary of Enrique Razon 's Trident Water Holdings Company, Inc., who acquired stakes from the country's oldest conglomerate, Ayala Corporation , starting in ...
The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System [1] (Tagalog: Pangasiwaan ng Tubig at Alkantarilya sa Kalakhang Maynila), [5] formerly known as the National Waterworks and Sewerage System Authority (NAWASA), is the government agency that is in charge of water privatization in Metro Manila and nearby provinces of Cavite and Rizal in the Philippines.
It supplies about 90 percent of raw water requirements for Metro Manila through the facilities of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System. Maynilad is sourcing its more than 90 percent raw water supply requirement from Angat Dam. Laguna de Bay is another source of water for Maynilad, mainly serving Muntinlupa and Cavite.
Boracay Island Water Company, Inc. (BIWC), branded as Boracay Water, is the joint venture company of Manila Water Company through its subsidiary Manila Water Philippine Ventures (MWPV) and the Philippine Tourism Authority (now Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority) that delivers potable water service, sewerage service, and eventually, drainage management under a 25-year ...
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Agricultural water management in the Philippines is primarily focused on irrigation. The country has 3.126 million hectares of irrigable land, 50% (1.567 million hectares) of which already has irrigation facilities. 50% of irrigated areas are developed and operated by the government through the National Irrigation System (NIS). 36% is developed by the government and operated by irrigators ...
Laguna Water is a Manila Water Philippine Ventures company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Manila Water Company.It provide services on the East Zone of Laguna mainly Biñan, Santa Rosa, and Cabuyao with a total of 60 barangays and a population of about 900,000 as of end of 2014, and eventually to the entire province of Laguna.
Manila residents had become accustomed to poor water service in Manila and did not feel a strong urge [according to whom?] to change the situation, especially because water tariffs were very low. According to a book by Mark Dumol, a senior civil servant in charge of the privatization, President Fidel Ramos insisted in 1994 that there was a ...