Malacañang on Friday directed all nationwide authorities companies to implement and follow water conservation measures amid the specter of El Niño and its potential influence on the nation.
Signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, Memorandum Circular No. 22 states that because of the likelihood of an El Niño phenomenon within the subsequent months, “there is an urgent need to implement water conservation measures to avert a looming water crisis not just in Metro Manila, but in all other areas of the country experiencing water scarcity.”
The Palace tasked the newly-created Water Resources Management Office, underneath the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, to take the lead within the implementation of a nationwide water conservation program.
Further, all nationwide authorities companies and instrumentalities, together with government-owned or -controlled companies and state universities and schools, are hereby directed to determine and implement particular, quantifiable, and attainable water conservation measures that can lead to a ten% water quantity discount of their respective first quarter water consumption.
Meanwhile, the Local Water Utilities Administration, the National Water Resources Board, and the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System are ordered to submit a month-to-month supply-demand projection, which is able to state if there might be a deficit within the water provide sooner or later.
The newest memorandum round additionally inspired authorities and personal water service suppliers to implement conservation measures that aren’t restricted to non-revenue water administration and water strain administration.
It additional known as on these water service suppliers to finish their tasks as a way to scale back non-revenue water and improve water distribution pipes.
Local authorities items are then urged to course of the requests of water service suppliers inside an affordable time period.
In April, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. known as for the creation of a group that will give attention to mitigating the consequences of the El Niño phenomenon.
The Presidential Communications Office had mentioned the “National El Niño Team” is already creating water conservation packages that purpose to mitigate the consequences of the looming dry spell within the nation.
State climate bureau PAGASA mentioned the phenomenon is anticipated to begin in June of this yr. The climate bureau mentioned the local weather sample within the nation would stay impartial from March to June however expects El Niño to start thereafter.
The El Niño phenomenon is characterised by the irregular warming of sea floor temperature within the central and japanese equatorial Pacific Ocean and beneath regular rainfall. —VAL, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
