Water Fiesta in QC
Some 3,000 urban poor residents of Barangays Damayang Lagi, Immaculate Concepcion, Over D’ Bakod, Lantana and Botocan, all in Quezon City, were connected to the east zone water system recently through the Manila Water Company’s “Tubig Para Sa Barangay’ program. Photo shows Congresswoman Nanette Castelo-Daza and Manila Water area business manager Joey Cadorna opening the valve that would bring piped-in supply to these communities. The TPSB is the Ayala-led concessionaire’s flagship program to bring clean and affordable water supply - in close coordinatioin with local government units - to the growing informal settler communities all over Metro Manila’s east zone. Over 500,000 poor people have been so far connected since the program’s inception in 1998.