‘No advice to pay bulk water supplier’

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BY MAE SINGUAY
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January 21, 2018
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BACOLOD City – Juliana Carbon, general manager of the Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa), said she has yet to receive a “recommendation to pay” in relation to the two-month water delivery of the Bacolod Bulk Water, Inc. (BBWI).

Carbon told Panay News this on Friday in light of BBWI chairman Ryan Yapkianwee’s claim that Baciwa failed to pay its bulk water bills.

Baciwa and BBWI entered into a contract on March 22, 2016 for the city’s 25-year bulk water supply through two injection points, one in Barangay Granada (Injection Point 1) and the other, in Barangay Mansilingan (Injection Point 2).

BBWI is a consortium of three companies: the Mactan Rock Industries, Inc., the Tubig Pilipinas Group, Inc. and the TGV Builders.

Yapkianwee on Thursday said BBWI has supplied bulk water to Baciwa from Oct. 16 to Dec, 16 last year.

This is part of the contract they entered which involves the initial supply of 15,000 cubic meters daily per injection point, which will eventually increase to 75,000 cubic meters daily during the 25-year period.

“The price is P8.85 per cubic meter and P9.85 per cubic meter for the first and second injection points, respectively,” Yapkianwee told media members at Seda Capitol Central in the city.

He added that BBWI was not able to collect the payments because Baciwa was having an internal “issue.”

Yapkianwee said Carbon instructed that the bulk water supply must be delivered to the reservoir but the Baciwa Board of Directors wanted it delivered directly through the pipeline.

The BBWI chairman said they still have to wait for the “issue” to be solved.

He also claimed that Baciwa was having problems regarding its operational costs, like payment for electricity and manpower, among others.

According to Yapkianwee, he already sent Baciwa the bills last year.

In response, Carbon said Baciwa is willing to pay the water bills. However, the water district has not received any “recommendation to pay” from BBWI.

She stressed that paying the bills must undergo the legal process, like the auditing.

While saying that her role in Baciwa is “ministerial,” Carbon said BBWI must also comply with what was stated in the contract.

This is to avoid more problems, she added.

Carbon also clarified that there is no issue between the Baciwa management and the Board of Directors since they are “united in principle.”

“Our obligation is to wait for the bulk water to be delivered to the reservoir at the required volume, required rate and required water quality,” she said.

Carbon stressed that Baciwa is actually helping BBWI.

She cited that the Baciwa Board of Directors issued a resolution, which was affirmed by the Office of the Government Corporate Council, allowing the amendments to the contract that permitted BBWI to temporarily connect to the water district’s main pipeline for the water to be delivered at the reservoir./PN
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