MWC to put up Mandaluyong treatment plant

Manila Water Co. Inc. is tapping Suez Asia’s Water Asia Business as well as Megawide Construction Corp. to build in Mandaluyong City a sewage treatment plant that can process 60 million liters of sewage daily.

The Ayala group subsidiary said in a regulatory filing that increasing sewer coverage in Mandaluyong, San Juan, and Quezon City was part of its service obligation as a concessionaire of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS).

The planned project, called Aglipay Sewage Treatment Plant, is designed such that the daily capacity can be expanded to 120 million liters daily.

Last September, Manila Water said it would spend P115 billion more to complete its sewerage program by 2037.

“Since 1997 when we took over the East Zone, we have spent P38.5 billion on our wastewater programs from collections of only P36.9 billion,” Manila Water chief operating officer Abelardo P. Basilio said in a statement then. INQ