West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. bares spending P4 billion this year to cut its non-revenue water (NRW) losses reaching 162 million liters per day.
This is equivalent to 73 Olympic-size swimming pools daily and enough water to service the needs of around 162,000 people.
To recover that much water losses, Maynilas will repair an estimated 36,000 pipe leaks across its service area and replace 180 kilometers of old pipes in parts of Caloocan, Quezon City, Valenzuela City, Malabon, Manila, Parañaque, Las Piñas, Muntinlupa and Imus and Kawit in Cavite province.
“These network upgrades are necessary so we can continue to reduce water losses and increase water pressure in the distribution system, thus increasing available supply for distribution to our customers,” said Randolph Estrellado, chief operations officer at Maynilad.
The undertaking also involves pipe and meter replacements, active leak controls using modern leak detection technology, the establishment and maintenance of district metered areas, as well as sustaining network diagnostic activities.
Since its re-privatization in 2007, Maynilad has repaired 458,000 pipe leaks and replaced 3,083 kilometers of old pipelines, enabling it to renew 66 percent of the network it inherited from the original operator, the government.
Maynilad is the largest private water concessionaire in the Philippines in terms of customers serving the cities of Manila, Quezon City, Makati, Caloocan, Pasay, Parañaque, Las Piñas, Muntinlupa, Valenzuela, Navotas and Malabon as well as the cities of Cavite, Bacoor and Imus, and the towns of Kawit, Noveleta and Rosario in Cavite Province.
