THE Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) expressed concern over the possible supply of water in Metro Manila in the coming dry months.
This is because of the decline in the water level in Angat Dam that it said has reached the point where it will not be able to provide water supply on a 24-hour basis.
However, MWSS Chief Regulator Patrick Lester Ty said that the water situation for this coming dry season will not be the same compared to the crisis experienced in 2019.
“For the summer months, we are very concerned about the water supply and we are hoping that the public can assist us by conserving water. We have to realize that it’s below the level that is desirable to ensure continuous 24-hour water supply,” Ty explains during a press briefing.
“But we are not expecting any water crisis during the summer months similar to what happened in 2019 wherein there was no water at all,” he added.
He said that if ever there will be water supply interruptions, this will last for only a few hours instead of days.
“It will not result in a 24-hour span when there will be no water at your tap unlike in 2019 wherein people were really lining up outside the streets because there was no water from their tap or tank for 15 days,” Ty pointed out.
Ty likewise appealed to the public to conserve water especially now that the water supply coming from Angat Dam is getting to be tighter.
“In the meantime, we ask the public to please help conserve the water so we can stretch our Angat Dam water supply so that we will not be wasting water and we will have water by summer,” he emphasized.