Potable water system needed in Burgos’ barangays

By Leilanie G. Adriano

Staff Reporter

BURGOS, Ilocos Norte—The local chief executive here has bared the demand for more potable water systems in this town’s dry villages.

As watersheds and rivers are running dry this summer, Burgos mayor Cresente Garcia on May 12 said the provision of potable water system is a major concern in this municipality, which is hosting the on-going construction of an 87-MW wind power project here—the second wind farm in Ilocos Norte.

To date, Garcia said at least P8 million is expected to be released from the Department of Interior and Local Government’s Sagana at Ligtas na Tubig (SALINTUBIG) program to benefit Brgys. Bobon and Paayas.

According to Garcia, they have earlier identified a potential water source at Brgy. Agaga but the municipal government cannot afford to put up its own water system.

As the demand for potable water increases in this town as a new home for renewable energy, Garcia said his administration is currently working on the inclusion of more barangays here as beneficiaries of the Department of Tourism and Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) convergence project, meant to provide clean drinking water to poor and still waterless communities in the country.

The LWUA has been tapped to assist in the implementation of the water supply system development projects under the P1.5 billion SALINTUBIG program under the watch of President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III.

In line with the country’s Millennium Development Goal’s target to increase access to potable water as contained in the Philippine’s development plan for 2011-2016 which gives priority to water and sanitation, the SALINTUBIG program provides grant financing and capacity building for the implementation of water supply projects in poor communities without access to safe water and with high level of waterborne diseases.

In Ilocos Norte, the DOT-LWUA convergence project hopes to benefit at least four more barangays in this town including Brgys. Poblacion, Buduan, Nagsurot and Tanap.

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