MANILA WATER PROVIDES POTABLE WATER TO ALBAY'S FLOODED VILLAGES

By CET DEMATERA

LEGAZPI CITY---Evacuees and relocates in Albay were provided free potable water
by the Manila Water through its P10-million worth truck-mounted treatment plant
that could purify tap and salty water of up to 11,000 liters every hour.

Christian Caong, head of the 15-man team from the Manila Water’s Business
Continuity Section, said that the treatment plant could convert water from
wells, creeks or even rivers into clean and fit to drink water, particularly in
areas which were stricken by floods and other calamities.

Caong said Albay officials had requested their services for water purifying
particularly in the relocation sites and evacuation centers where potable water
is badly needed.

He said their machine could extract at least 80 percent of purified tap water
and 30 percent if salt water.

Albay Gov. Joey Salceda said he was pleased that the Manila Water management had

granted their request to provide water in areas where residents displaced by
recent floodings and previous calamities are in dire need of clean water.

“Albay is indeed lucky enough that even private firms, like Manila Water, are
always willng to extend any help possible,” Salceda said, while
personally watching some 400 family residents of Taysan Resettlement Site in
Legazpi City queued for purified water yesterday.

Salceda said that the treatment plant would be hopping to the different
relocation areas and evacuation camps to ration potable water.

Manila Water also purified sea water in Puro, San Roque, and Pigcale, three
urban barangays perennial hit by floods here.

He admitted though that the move was also meant to avoid potential diseases that

may break up from drinking unsafe water due to flood contamination.

Until yesterday, some 2,000 families residing in landslide-prone areas remained
in the different evacuation camps in Legazpi City, Manito, Bacacay, Sto.Domingo,

Malilipot and Daraga. (cet dematera)