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The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System [1] (Tagalog: Pangasiwaan ng Tubig at Alkantarilya sa Kalakhang Maynila), [5] formerly known as the National Waterworks and Sewerage System Authority (NAWASA), is the government agency that is in charge of water privatization in Metro Manila and nearby provinces of Cavite and Rizal in the Philippines.
Agricultural water management in the Philippines is primarily focused on irrigation. The country has 3.126 million hectares of irrigable land, 50% (1.567 million hectares) of which already has irrigation facilities. 50% of irrigated areas are developed and operated by the government through the National Irrigation System (NIS). 36% is developed by the government and operated by irrigators ...
Maynilad Water Services, Inc., better known as Maynilad, is the water and wastewater services provider of cities and municipalities that form the West Zone of the Greater Manila Area in the Philippines. It is an agent and contractor of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS). [1]
Narita International Airport Corporation (MLIT 90.01%, MOF 9.99%) Nippon Automated Cargo Clearance Systems (NACCS) (50.01%) Tokyo Metro Company, Limited (53.42%) The government is mandated by law to own one-thirds of all Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Japan Tobacco, and Japan Post Holdings Company stocks; Owned by JOGMEC: JAPEX (34%) Inpex (18 ...
Desludging trucks of Manila Water in 2012. Manila Water Company, a publicly listed company and a subsidiary of Ayala Corporation, holds the exclusive right to provide water and used water services to over six million people in the Manila Water Concession, particularly the East Zone of Metro Manila and Rizal Province consisting of 23 cities and municipalities.
International banks were unwilling to lend to Maynilad after the financial crisis, and the owners were not willing to inject more equity. [20] Manila Water, on the other hand, initially did not invest in system expansion in its Eastern Zone. [25] It focused on reducing non-revenue water and initially borrowed only small amounts in local currency.
Aerial view of Novaliches Reservoir, 1940. The La Mesa Dam was constructed in 1929 as the Novaliches Reservoir during the American colonial era in the Philippines.Sometime between 1920 and 1926, the Metropolitan Water District (a predecessor agency of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System) decided to build a replacement for the old Wawa Dam in Montalban, Rizal.
The La Mesa Watershed Reservation is a protected area that preserves the only major watershed in Metro Manila, Philippines.Also known as the Novaliches Watershed, it contains the last remaining rainforest of its size in Metro Manila surrounding the La Mesa Dam and Reservoir, the primary source of potable drinking water for 12 million residents in the Manila metropolitan area. [1]