The Cagayan de Oro Water District is given until May 10 to submit its documents after a consumers' group filed a petition for a 'complete audit'
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The LWUA directive came after a Manila-based group, United Filipino Consumers and Commuters , expressed concerns about the threat of a water crisis in Cagayan de Oro as a result of a debt dispute between the COWD and its primary bulk supplier of treated water, Cagayan de Oro Bulk Water Incorporated .UFCC submitted copies of its petitions to the LWUA and the Office of the President on Monday, calling for a “complete audit” of the COWD.
The group said state auditors have also called out the COWD for releasing honoraria to members of its board of directors without minutes of meetings.Ito ay ilan sa mga maaaring mga dahilan kung bakit ang mga konsyumer sa Cagayan de Oro ay nalalagay sa peligrong mawalan ng tubig,” The NRW is almost equivalent to the volume of treated water purchased by COWD from COBI. COBI’s supply constitutes nearly half of Cagayan de Oro’s tap water supply.Young said the COWD already responded to the COA and submitted copies of the minutes of meetings of the water district’s policy-making body.
The COWD and COBI, a firm controlled by business tycoon Manny Pangilinan’s Metro Pacific Water, have yet to reach an agreement about the water district’sUp to this day, COWD has been paying COBI the unadjusted P16.60 per cubic meter water rate despite the latter’s adjustment, increasing the rate to P20.57 in 2021 and becoming P24.19 in 2024.
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