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NEWS President Aquino transfers LWUA back to DPWH, creates water sector interagency committee
LWUA is the national water agency that oversees the development of safe and reliable water supply in provincial urban areas. The order, contained in E.O. No. 62 and signed last October 26, also provided for the creation of an interagency committee to be led by the Public Works Secretary that will design and recommend to the President a water sector master plan that will address all issues concerning the water sector. The National Economic Development Authority, Department of Budget and Management, Department of Interior and Local Government and the Office of the President are among the agencies named to constitute the committee. It also designated the Secretaries of Finance, Public Works and Health to sit, in ex-officio capacity, in the agency's policy-making body - Board of Trustees - to represent the National Government. LWUA has a five-man board of trustees with its Administrator sitting ex-officio. Presidential Decree No. 198, the law which created LWUA in 1973, provides that "at least three of the trustees must be employees of the national government." LWUA
has traditionally been under the DPWH but was transferred to the
DOH in 2008. 04 November 2011 |
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President
Aquino recently transferred the Local Water Utilities Administration
(LWUA) from the Department of Health as attached agency and placed
it under the administrative supervision of the Department of Public
Works and Highways. 