Manila Water is set to build a new 200 million liters per day (MLD) water treatment plant (WTP) which will provide additional supply of potable water to Metro Manila’s East Zone after inking a partnership deal with ACCIONA, PrimeBMD, and Santa Clara International, which form the consortium which will design and construct the facility. 

Manila Water manages to keep its non-revenue water (NRW) average at 13.35% for the first half of this year sustaining 24/7 water supply to its 7.6 million customers in the East Zone of Metro Manila and parts of Rizal. The water company has been maintaining its NRW average below 14% by implementing vigorous maintenance checks, replacement, rehabilitation, and repairs in its more than 5300-km distribution network.

As El Niño is expected to affect the whole of the Philippines and bring less rains until next year, Manila Water, through its operating subsidiary Manila Water Philippine Ventures, bares its plans to ensure continuity of water supply in its service areas outside Metro Manila.

The effusive eruption of Mayon Volcano has placed the community under Alert Level 3, affecting almost 6,000 families or more than 20,000 individuals. Water, food supply and hygiene products are crucial in evacuation centers around the affected municipalities of Albay.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB), Emory University – Center for Global Safe Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene and Manila Water have started the implementation of full-scale Wastewater-based Epidemiology (WBE) for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in Metro Manila, under ADB’s Accelerating Sanitation for All in Asia and the Pacific program.