TACLOBAN CITY, Jan. 13 (PNA) -- Nearly 700
households at the city’s northern relocation site will soon have access to
potable water after the city government secured funding from the Department of
Interior Local Government (DILG) for water needs of families badly hit by
supertyphoon Yolanda.
The PHP5 million fund will come from the DILG’s
bottom up budgeting (BuB) potable water system sub-project. Specifically, it
will be used for the installation of the water pipeline distribution systems in
two housing projects built by UN Habitat and GMA Kapuso Foundation.
City Administrator lawyer Irene Chiu said the
project will provide much needed water services in permanent housing, whose
dweller are highly dependent on daily water rations.
Recently, the city government had put up a
satellite office in the north, some 13.4 kilometers from the city center, to
provide much needed government services to the resettled communities.
Concerned households which attended the public
consultation organized by the city government last week welcomed the project.
This latest development is part of the thrust of
Mayor Cristina Romualdez to provide basic amenities to resettled families in
the northern resettlement sites, according to Chiu.
She added that the BuB project will provide
households with free pipe and water service installation and is expected to
commence as soon as the fund is downloaded to the local government unit.
Each of the beneficiary households will be
installed with a level 3-type water system; which means that each house will
have their own water connection and meter.
Private water utility provider Mactan Rock will
supply water sourced from different potable sources in the city.
JMC/SQM/CITY INFORMATION OFFICE-PR
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