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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…
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…
WITH El Niño forecasted to occur around July of this year, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) is now taking steps to prepare the local government units against the possible effects of the dry…
The Sibonga municipal hall had no running water after its supply was cut off by the town’s water supply cooperative due unpaid bills since 1995. Arceli Guaves, chairman of the board of the town’s local water supplier,…
BEIRUT — Residents of Damascus are scrambling for clean water after the government attacked rebels holding the city’s main source in a nearby valley, leading to an accidental outage that has stretched on for nearly two weeks.…
(PART 2) Following months of heated political bickering, One Cebu gubernatorial candidate Winston Garcia conceded defeat to re-elected governor, Hilario Davide III a day after the May 9 elections. Results later showed that Davide garnered 616,381 votes…
DESPITE the rains, some barangays in Badian town continue to experience a water supply shortage. During last Monday’s consultative meeting, the barangay officials asked the provincial government to develop a waterworks system in their areas. “Niaging tuig…
As Cebu has been experiencing light, moderate to occasionally heavy rains, the island’s water supply is now almost back to normal. According to Raul Tabasa, Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) Engineering department manager, the water supply in…
This is regarding the column of Mr. Stephen Capillas dated Friday, June 24, 2016 entitled “Dry spell’s end and the political intramurals.” We would like to answer some points he raised in his column. a) On being…
DAILY water production in Metro Cebu has normalized this week according to the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD). In a press statement, MCWD attributed the normalization of the water tables to the rains brought about by the…
Manila — The last few days of rains have brought some relief to Metro Cebu residents after four months of heat aggravated by the El Niño dry spell caused many faucets to go bone dry. April was…
THE Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) said it cannot prioritize the building and operation of dams at the Mananga-Kotkot-Lusaran river basins amid public clamor for additional sources of potable water. During a meeting of the Metro Cebu…
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