The Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) approved a 1.12% increase or a 28-centavo per cubic meter increase in the Foreign Currency Differential Adjustment (FCDA) for the third quarter of this year for East Zone concessionaire Manila Water Company.

Manila Water is set to implement new standard water rates after the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System Board of Trustees approved and confirmed the tariff adjustment in its Board Resolution No. 2017-036-RO dated April 5, 2017.

Ayala-led East Zone concessionaire Manila Water reached another milestone this year as it breached the one million mark in terms of water service connections in its concession area.

Secretary Gina Lopez of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and Manila Water Chairman Fernando Zobel de Ayala led the ceremonial energization of the Marikina North Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) in Balubad Resettlement, Barangay Nangka, Marikina City on November 24, 2016.