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 To
develop local institutions that would properly manage and operate
water systems on sustained and professional manner, the Local
Water Utilities Administration has targeted the establishment
of new water districts and activation of already formed but still
unoperational ones in 220 provincial areas.
LWUA Board
Chairman Prospero A. Pichay, Jr. said the formatiqn and activation
of independent local water districts are a vital indispensable
part of the Agency's multibillion pesos program aimed at helping
the Arroyo Administration fulfill one of its priority legacy programs
- that of providing clean and safe drinking water to all barangays
by 2010.
By developing
Level III waterworks system and bulk water supply projects in
119 waterless municipalities and 101 non-operational water districts
within the mandated area of coverage of LWUA, the Agency will
be able to provide direct access to potable water to an additional
of more than half a million Filipinos in the countryside, Pichay
said.
According
to Pichay, with full support of the Executive and Legislative
branches of the government, LWUA has already secured the funds
needed to implement water supply projects especially for the so-called
waterless communities.
However,
he stressed that developing management and technical expertise
in the local communities which would benefit from the projects
is as important as building the water facilities themselves.
This is
the reason LWUA has been extensively coordinating with concerned
local government units for the establishment of their water districts
and preparing the local people who would manage the water districts
and operate the water supply systems on sustained and viable basis.
May
27 , 2009
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