{"id":123543,"date":"2017-10-13T04:38:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T08:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=123543"},"modified":"2017-10-13T04:38:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T08:38:47","slug":"potable-water-project-to-benefit-2k-sipalay-city-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/13\/potable-water-project-to-benefit-2k-sipalay-city-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Potable water project to benefit 2K Sipalay City residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_123544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123544\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Map-of-Negros-Occidental-with-Sipalay-highlighted.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123544\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Map-of-Negros-Occidental-with-Sipalay-highlighted.png\" alt=\"Map of Negros Occidental with Sipalay highlighted (Photo by Mike Gonzalez (TheCoffee) - English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.00)\" width=\"300\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Map-of-Negros-Occidental-with-Sipalay-highlighted.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Map-of-Negros-Occidental-with-Sipalay-highlighted-257x300.png 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of Negros Occidental with Sipalay highlighted (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=356128\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Mike Gonzalez (TheCoffee) &#8211; English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.00<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>BACOLOD CITY<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Around 2,000 residents of Barangay Manlucahoc in Sipalay City would benefit from the Community-managed Potable Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (CPWASH) project of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).<\/p>\n<p>Under the memorandum of agreement (MOA) signed Wednesday by officials of DAR-Negros Occidental II, Sipalay City Government, and Manlucahoc Multi-Purpose Cooperative, the agency will allocate PHP80,000 as counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>Of the anount, PHP50,000 will be used to purchase construction materials while the remaining PHP30,000 will cover the expenses for project-related technology trainings.<\/p>\n<p>The DAR will also hire and train para-engineers who will help construct the facilities. The local government, meanwhile, allocated PHP50,000 for the labor requirement and livelihood project components.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 50 percent of the 2,000 recipients of the potable water project are the students and teachers of various schools in the said barangay.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer I Enrique Paderes, who led the MOA signing at the office of the assisted farmers\u2019 organization, urged the member-recipients to unite, protect, and conserve the support\u00a0services they receive from various government agencies like the DAR.<\/p>\n<p>Sipalay City Vice Mayor Lizares said the project is beneficial since it provides residents, especially students and teachers, the access to safe drinking water sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will also promote ecological sanitation through low-cost, culturally acceptable and appropriate technologies,\u201d Lizares said, adding that the city government is also planning to replicate the project in other barangays.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BACOLOD CITY\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Around 2,000 residents of Barangay Manlucahoc in Sipalay City would benefit from the Community-managed Potable Water Supply, Sanitation and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":123544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[27596,27597],"class_list":["post-123543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-potable-water-project","tag-sipalay-city-residents","mauthors-erwin-nicavera","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}