MCWD’s Water Day spent with 100 kids

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=&rid=957567
• Friday, March 31, 2017

(SunStar Cebu)

TO celebrate World Water Day, the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) and Vitens Evides International (VEI) recently held a handwashing activity in Tanke Elementary School in Talisay City.

At least 100 kindergarten pupils of the school participated in the handwashing activity where they learned the proper way of washing hands to ensure sanitation and cleanliness.

MCWD Acting General Manager Noel Dalena and VEI pro-poor water supply project manager Patrick Egan attended the event.

This year’s International World Water Day theme is Wastewater.

The World Health Organization said that globally, the vast majority of all the wastewater from homes, industry and agriculture flows back to nature without being treated or reused, thus, polluting drinking and bathing water sources.

VEI, MCWD, Netherlands Enterprise Agency, Red Cross and Tubig Pag-asa (Eau et Vie) are partners in a pro-poor water supply project called WatSup Cebu.

This project will expand MCWD’s network to slum areas and connecting 80,000 people to the supply of safe water, and Barangay Tanke is one of the recipients. The project also provides 27 generator sets at MCWD’s wellfields to ensure continuity of supply even during power outage and typhoons.

MCWD intends to put up a septage treatment plant that will cater to its consumers in the Cities of Mandaue, Cebu and Lapu-Lapu.

The project is in compliance with the Clean Water Act of 2004, which requires all local government units and water districts in the country to implement septage management programs.

For more details, contact Charmaine Rodriguez-Kara at 0917-3255970 or 256-0424.