THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Tuesday called on government agencies to reduce their water consumption as some of them rack up millions in water bills a month.
'We have government agencies that exceed P1 million for their water bill; some are more than P10 million per month,' DENR Undersecretary Carlos Primo David, who supervises the Water Resources Management Office , said.David said that in some agencies, the water bills reached P15 million to P17 million.'These are government compounds, which include 20 [to] 30 buildings inside, but only have one water meter for the whole compound,' he added.
The official said huge amounts of water are lost because of leaks, especially in old government buildings.To encourage agencies to lower their water bills, David suggested giving incentives instead of penalizing or shaming them.'It will look better if we could give incentives. As for the next steps, I thought that for every peso that you are able to save in your water bill, you should be able to partly recover it,' he said.
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