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BY MAE SINGUAY
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BACOLOD City – Bacolod Bulk Water, Inc. held Monday a groundbreaking ceremony for Injection Point 1 of the Bacolod City Water District’s (Baciwa) bulk water supply project in Hacienda Loygoy, Barangay Granada.
The consortium’s chairman and chief operating officer Ryan Yap said they will start supplying potable water to Baciwa in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Bacolod Bulk Water, Inc. is a merger of three companies: Mactan Rock Industries, Inc., Tubig Pilipinas Group, Inc. and TGV Builders, Inc.
According to Yap, their combined technologies will be soon commercially ready to address the city’s bulk water needs and relieve the pressure on Baciwa, which has a dwindling well water supply.
The project also involves Injection Point 2 in Barangay Mansilingan. Injection Point 1 alone is worth P1.1 billion.
Yap said they are “ready to build the project and address the forthcoming demand for bulk water as the city expands and opens to more businesses.”
The entire project consists of a water treatment plant with an initial capacity of 30,000 cubic meters per day for the two injection points, escalating to 150,000 cubic meters per day through a 20-kilometer pipeline directly connected to the reservoirs.
It will use at least 6 million cubic meters each year from surface water sources, Yap said.
He said the project is seen to provide the locals “quality and affordable water … to improve sanitation and hygiene conditions.”
Baciwa and the consortium signed the bulk water supply contract on March 2.
Baciwa general manager Mario Macatangay said the project will add 5 million liters a day more to the current supply.
“Right now we are touching people’s lives negatively because some areas have only four to six hours of (water) supply,” he said. “With this project, we can say we can touch their lives 24/7 in a positive way.”/PN
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