{"id":21895,"date":"2014-08-14T00:34:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21895"},"modified":"2014-08-14T00:34:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:34:47","slug":"maynilad-to-public-anticipate-water-supply-shortage-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/14\/maynilad-to-public-anticipate-water-supply-shortage-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Maynilad to public: Anticipate water supply shortage in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21899\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Maynilad_Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21899\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Maynilad_Logo-300x130.png\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Maynilad_Logo-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Maynilad_Logo.png 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Maynilad Water Services Inc., the country\u2019s largest water distributor, warned the public of an impending water supply shortage come 2015 should the country experience El Ni\u00f1o late this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Maynilad\u2019s chief financial officer Randolph Estrellado, the country\u2019s water supply for next year will depend on how bad the El Nino will be. As a matter of fact, they are considering of rationing water next year to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe worst case is that we will have El Ni\u00f1o and we end the year below the 200 meters above sea level (MASL),\u201d said Estrellado.<\/p>\n<p>He added that some customers of Maynilad will not be able to enjoy uninterrupted water service, while other customers will experience a decrease in the water pressure which may last until summer.<\/p>\n<p>According to Maynilad president and chief executive officer Victorico Vargas, the extraction of water fom Angat Dam would have to be lessened in order to expand its use.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Metro Pacific Investments Corp. chairman Manuel Pangilinan said that they target to end the year with a 200 MASL at Angat Dam. This will give the public an assurance that there will be enough water for them to get by.<\/p>\n<p>As of August 11, water levels at Angat Dam stand at 177 MASL. This is due to the lesser amount of rains that the country is experiencing these past weeks. As a matter of fact, the National Water Resources Board stopped the release of water for rice farm irrigation.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from Maynilad assured that the condition will not be the same as what the public experience in 2010 when the MASL of Angat Dam went down to 157 affecting more than 300,000 customers.<\/p>\n<p>As a solution, Pangilinan is suggesting to tap another water plant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may have to tap water treatment plant in Pututan,\u00a0 which is now 70 million liters per day but we should increase that capacity,\u201d said Pangilinan, noting that Maynilad to date already built 28 water reservoirs in the city to increase supply of water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Maynilad Water Services Inc., the country\u2019s largest water distributor, warned the public of an impending water supply shortage &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[6900,7344,7345],"class_list":["post-21895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-6900","tag-maynilad","tag-water-shortage","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21895","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}