MCWD: Cebu City’s freshwater faces growing saltwater contamination

Pia Piquero 11/14/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Cebu City faces a growing water problem as saltwater seeps into its freshwater sources due to excessive groundwater extraction. With communities already experiencing the effects and the risk of intrusion spreading, the Cebu…

Lapu-Lapu City, private firm to establish desal plant in Punta Engaño

Futch Anthony Inso 09/18/2024

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu —  The Lapu-Lapu City Government and a private firm, Summa Water Resource Inc., broke ground yesterday for the construction of a desalination plant in Barangay Punta Engaño. The private water provider will also lay…

MCWD kicks off water expansion projects in Guba, Agsungot

Pia Piquero 09/03/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A long-awaited solution to the decades-long water crisis in the city’s upland barangays is finally underway. On Monday, September 2, the Metro Cebu Water District (MCWD) broke ground on water expansion projects in…

Desal plant in Mandaue to address city’s water supply problem

Mary Rose Sagarino 04/11/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — Mandauehanons can anticipate an improved water supply from the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) come May, with the commissioning of the desalination plant in Barangay Opao. MCWD’s bulk water supplier is expected to…

In water-stressed Singapore, a search for new solutions to keep the taps flowing

02/26/2024

SINGAPORE (AP) — A crack of thunder booms as dozens of screens in a locked office flash between live video of cars splashing through wet roads, drains sapping the streets dry, and reservoirs collecting the precious rainwater…

MCWD inks deal to provide additional water supply to Talisay City residents

Wenilyn Sabalo 08/11/2023

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) entered into a bulk water supply agreement with a private firm to provide additional water supply to Talisay City residents. In a statement, the water district…

Mayor Chan to deploy team to monitor price of drinking water in Lapu-Lapu City

Futch Anthony Inso 08/04/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu—Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan said he will deploy an inspection team that will monitor the price of drinking water within the city. This after the Lapu-Lapu City Water Station Owners Association (LLCWSAO) expressed…

MCWD inks contract with construction firm for Lapu pipe-laying project

Wenilyn Sabalo 05/16/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) signed a contract with a Cebu City-based private construction firm Philkonstrak Development Corp. to implement a P100-million transmission and distribution pipeline project along Agus to Mactan Circumferential Road in…

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…

500 households in Ermita now have access to potable water

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/17/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) has commissioned its expansion project in Brgy. Ermita, Cebu City, that will serve the village’s innermost communities.  MCWD chairperson and lawyer Jose ‘Joey’ Daluz III, together with…

Lusaran water facility to start supplying in uptown Cebu City on Sept. 18

Morexette Marie B. Erram 09/11/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Lusaran bulk water project in Cebu City will start operating and supplying water in uptown villages this September 18, the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) said. MCWD, in a statement, said that…

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,…

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