Maynilad Water Services Inc. has plugged more than 28,000 pipe leaks in the first half of 2024, enabling the concession to recover 198 million liters of water a day for the period.
Maynilad said this was enough water to supply the requirements of 198,000 people.
This developed as the company targets to repair 50,000 pipe leaks throughout its concession within the year.
Maynilad said leaks repair are a major component of its non-revenue water (NRW) management program that seeks to bring down physical and commercial water loss.
This year alone, Maynilad allotted P791 million for active leak control and increased its manpower complement to deploy more leak detection teams over a wider area and to speed up the fixing of leaks.
Maynilad has also begun using artificial intelligence for detecting pipe leaks and for monitoring pipe condition so it can proactively replace pipelines even before a breakage occurs.
“Bringing down water losses is a task that we take very seriously, the reason why we have dedicated more resources and tapped new technologies to find and plug leaks in the system. The public can also help in this effort by actively reporting pipe leaks and illegal connections to Maynilad,” said Ryan Jamora, Maynilad central NRW division head.
