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Manila Water produces 7th Tower Awardee in 9 years

Posted: Tuesday June 12, 2007

Manila Water Company keeps churning them out. The Ayala-led operator of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System’s East Zone concession produced its seventh winner in nine years in the prestigious The Outstanding Workers of the Republic or TOWER Awards when Nestor Suganob, a wastewater operative at the company’s UP Sewage Treatment Plant, led the list of only three honorees in this year’s edition of the nationwide search.

Suganob was honored along with Larrydith Leaño of Storytech Corporation in Meycauayan, Bulacan and Andrew Cabang of Del Monte Philippines in Bukidnon in ceremonies held at the Century Park Hotel last June 7.

The 53-year-old Suganob scored highest with the judges led by Senator Mar Roxas with his highly-innovative diffuser lock opener, which has enabled the sewage treatment plants to clean and reuse clogged diffusers – which provide the necessary oxygen that make actual wastewater treatment possible – instead of replacing them, in the process saving for Manila Water an average of P1.37 million annually with each of the imported device costing some P3,000.

The multi-skilled Suganob also created a gravity-fed chlorine-dosing device, which has enabled the UP Sewage Treatment Plant to maintain the level of chlorine it requires even without electricity through the simple use of gravity.

Suganob thus became the seventh Manila Water employee to capture a TOWER Award despite a move by the organizing Rotary Club of Manila and Metrobank Foundation to make the program’s standards even more stringent. He follows Manila Water colleagues Wolfredo Macasaet who won it in 1999, Jerrybell Serquiña (2001), Roberto Nabo (2003), Jaime Opider (2005), and Alexander Galang and German Anobling, who both earned the award last year.

The victory was worth P100,000 to each of the three winners. Each of them also received a baccalaureate degree from the Technological University of the Philippines plus a full scholarship that may be used by any of his children for a bachelor’s or masteral degree from either the TUP, the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila or the Central Colleges of the Philippines, and another scholarship from STI College.