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Foreign funded water projects in Iloilo OK'd

The Regional Development Council recently endorsed several Water Supply System projects for the first and second districts of Iloilo for funding under the KfW of the Government of Germany.

The water projects to be implemented by the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) has a total funding of P44,040,259.  The three projects in the first district include Igbaras Water Supply system worth P16,873,259, the Miagao Water Supply System Improvement worth P8,000,000 and the Tubunagan Water Supply system worth P 8,686,000.  For the second district, the Zarraga Water Supply Expansion Project was endorsed with P10,481,000.

The Igbaras Water Project would initially serve 587 connections.  It will include the construction of two deep wells, construction of a pumping station, a hypo chlorinator, 2,040 transmission lines and reservoir.

On the other hand, the Miagao water project would serve 441 service connections and will include infiltration gallery, a concrete elevated reservoir, a concrete ground reservoir, a pumping station and 10,380 meters of transmission and distribution pipelines.

Tubungan's water project would serve a total of 49 unmetered service connections in three barangays  It will have two well sources, two pumping stations, 1.8 kms of transmission pipeline and 5.73 kms of distribution line, water disinfection facilities and the rehabilitation of the existing marginal communal water supply system.

The Zarraga Water Supply System would benefit three hundred ninety-nine consumers.  The project will include two wells, an elevated concrete reservoir and a total of 16,273 transmission/distribution pipelines serving nine barangays. (PIA6)