Terminated MCWD Board continues to question Labella’s termination order

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/01/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The terminated members of the Board of Directors (BOD) of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) will continue to question the termination order of Mayor Edgardo Labella. The camp of Ralph Sevilla, Augustus…

MCWD to provide free water for Devotee City pilgrims

Delta Letigio 01/10/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) will be providing free water for those who will be occupying the  Devotee City, which will officially be open to devotees on January 17, 2020.  In a statement, the…

MCWD ‘terminated’ board pursues case against Labella, LWUA

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/19/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The terminated board members of Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD), who filed a petition to nullify both the notice of termination issued against them by Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella and the decision…

Labella orders having rainwater catchments in establishments

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/21/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella has ordered the implementation of a 13-year-old ordinance on rainwater conservation that would entail all establishments to have rainwater catchments. The mayor met with the city’s Water Advisory…

Water district revives Cebu City’s Guadalupe well

Delta Derycka C. Letigio 11/05/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines —The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) has revived a once-contaminated well in Barangay Guadalupe and can now supply 200 cubic meters of water per day to 200 households.  In a statement released to the…

MCWD employees’ warning: Water price may surge if privatization pushed

Rosalie Abatayo 10/30/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Employees of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) have maintained their position against the privatization of the water district in the midst of issues surrounding its leadership. In a press conference held on…

MCWD chairman, general manager resign; LWUA to take over as interim board

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/22/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Chairman of the Metropolitan Cebu Water Districts (MCWD) Board, Joel Yu, has resigned from his post on October 22, 2019, one week after he was terminated, together with the rest of the…

Labella sacks MCWD board of directors

Delta Derycka C. Letigio 10/15/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — After consulting with the local water administration, Mayor Edgardo Labella made the move to terminate all members of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) citing their failure to…

Province eyes charges vs MCWD over water supply shortage

Rosalie Abatayo 09/25/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Due to the woes on water supply in Metro Cebu, the Cebu Provincial Capitol is asking the Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas to look into possible charges against officials of the…

MCWD says no new lines in El Niño-hit barangays

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/21/2017

The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) suspended installation of new connections to 27 areas in Metro Cebu which have yet to recover from last year’s El Niño dry spell. “Our stand here is we want to protect…

Low water supply hounds Capitol Site residents

Carine Era Asutilla-Lapid 03/18/2017

IT had been a month since Oliver Tubelar started spending P100 a day to fill 10 containers of water at a refilling station in Sitio Quintolimbo, Barangay Capitol Site in Cebu City. Due to the low water…

MCWD has new chairman, board member

PR 01/13/2017

The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) has appointed Joel Mari Yu new chairman of the Board of Directors starting January this year. Yu replaced Renato Mercado who served as BOD chairman since 2013. Mercado is now the…

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