The Local Water Utilities Administration must consolidate local water districts to ensure efficiency in their operations, especially with an El Niño season looming, Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey Salceda said. | GabrielLaluINQ
LWUA is the primary government agency tasked with establishing standards for local water districts outside of Metro Manila. But as of now, Salceda believes around 300 water districts across the country are either non-operational or barely operational — which indicates that these water districts would not have functioning central water systems.
“The thing with water is that it is infrastructure-intensive. It requires a lot of fixed costs, and it is only viable with enough revenue-paying users. So, if a water district is too small, or has too little demand, it’s doomed to fail – or will never mature to provide sanitation services, which are also expensive,” he added.
But just last Tuesday, Pagasa said that the probability of an El Niño between June to September had risen to“The new LWUA administrator, Vince Revil, means well. I support his efforts to conduct a national water inventory and the P20 billion Patubig sa Buong Bayan at Mamamayan project. But to ensure that operations and management of new water systems are efficient, we really need to consolidate water districts that are inefficient or non-operational,” he said.
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