VM Garcia: MCWD ‘controversy’ has affected party coalition

Rashe Zoe Sophia Piquero 11/09/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Following the controversy of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) board of directors, Acting Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia said that it had affected the alliance of political parties. The Vice Mayor said that…

What happened to the water pipe that burst in Brgy. Kamputhaw?

Morexette Marie B. Erram, Paul Lauro 05/11/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Residents in Brgy. Kamputhaw, Cebu City woke up to some bad news – their water supply got interrupted after a transmission line burst on Thursday dawn, May 11, 2023. The Metropolitan Cebu Water…

MCWD: Additional 15,000 cubic meters of water supply expected by September

Wenilyn Sabalo 03/15/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) targets to deliver an additional 15,000 cubic meters of water daily to its consumers in mountain barangays of Cebu City by September. MCWD’s Corporate Planning Department Acting…

Lusaran Bulk Water facility now supplies to 4 more mountain barangays

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/28/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Lusaran Bulk Water facility in Cebu City has started supplying water to four more mountain barangays here. The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) on Monday, December 26, 2022, opened the stub-out in…

Water firm shares hard-earned lessons learned from Odette

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/13/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — It may have been almost a year since it hit Cebu and other parts of Visayas and Mindanao, but Super Typhoon Odette still rings a bell in everybody’s ear. The date, Dec. 16,…

City councilor to MCWD: Cover excavated roads done with pipe-laying

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 09/24/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Councilor Mary Ann De Los Santos has proposed a resolution on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, directing the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) to ensure that portions of excavated  roads, particularly in…

MCWD to buy water from private desalination plants in 2023

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 09/21/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) chairman and lawyer Jose Daluz III said they hope to provide at least 22 million liters of water (MLD) to Mactan Island by 2023. Daluz, in an interview…

Daluz says he will not resign as MCWD chairman

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 08/24/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — There is no reason for him to resign as chairman of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD). Lawyer Jose Daluz III said he intends to stay and finish his term in 2024. “I’m…

Garcia: ‘I’m still confident with the MCWD Board’

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 08/23/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Acting Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia wants Lawyer Jose Daluz III and the current Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) board to stay despite the MCWD Employees’ Union (MEU’s) appeal for Daluz to…

Employees Union asks Daluz to step down as MCWD chair

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 08/18/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The MCWD Employees Union (MEU) is asking MCWD chairman Atty. Jose Daluz III to resign as head of the water district. MEU, the union of about 510 permanent Metropolitan Cebu Water District employees,…

MCWD wants out of legal battle over terminated board members

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 07/29/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) wants out of the court battle involving terminated board members of MCWD and the Cebu City government under the administration of the late Cebu City Mayor Edgardo…

MCWD seeks P9.85-hike in water rate consumption

Morexette Marie B. Erram 07/14/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Amid rising inflation, consumers in Metro Cebu may be facing the next two years with costlier water consumption bills.  This as the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) plans to impose an increase in…

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