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Water supply and sanitation in the Philippines
The NWRB is an attached agency of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources responsible for ensuring the exploitation, utilization, development, conservation and protection of the country's water resource, consistent with the principles [3] of "Integrated Water Resource Management". The NWRB Board is composed of five cabinet ...
Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
AGRI Party-list: 54 5 59 2. Agrarian Reform: Solomon R. Chungalao NPC: TBA TBA 28 4 32 3. Agriculture and Food: Wilfrido Mark M. Enverga: NPC: TBA TBA 78 6 84 4. Appropriations: Elzaldy Co Ako Bicol: TBA TBA 131 9 140 5. Aquaculture and Fisheries Resources: Alfredo MaraƱon III: NUP: TBA TBA 28 7 35 6. Banks and Financial Intermediaries: Irwin ...
Clean Water Act
Property law. In the American legal system, prior appropriation water rights is the doctrine that the first person to take a quantity of water from a water source for "beneficial use" (agricultural, industrial or household) has the right to continue to use that quantity of water for that purpose. [1][2] Subsequent users can take the remaining ...
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.
Water privatization in Metro Manila began when the then President of the Philippines, Fidel Ramos, instructed the government in 1994 to solve what he called the water crisis in Manila by engaging with the private sector. In 1997, two concession contracts for the Eastern and Western halves of Metro Manila were awarded after an open competition.