Ilocos Norte surpasses MDG target on safe drinking water

By Leilanie G. Adriano

Staff reporter

Laoag City—More Ilocanos now enjoy safe drinking water after the Ilocos Norte Water District (INWD) exceeded its target of 95 percent efficiency.

Over the past 13 years, INWD general manager John Teodoro said that since the end of December last year, Ilocos Norte’s access to a potable water system has improved from 68 percent in 1990 to 95 percent in 2013.

In terms of water sanitation, Mr. Teodoro said Ilocos Norte has already surpassed the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target of 82.9 percent by 2015.

By localizing the MDG targets in Ilocos Norte, most of these are water-related, the local government units of Ilocos Norte in cooperation with the government-owned and -controlled corporation of INWD has intensified its drive to improve its water sanitation by developing water management strategies and promote both equitable access and adequate supplies.

By the year 2015, the United Nations has resolved to halve the proportion of people who are unable to reach or to afford safe drinking water and who lack basic sanitation.

Previous studies show that in 1990, at least 35 percent of the developing world, including the Philippines had access to proper sanitation.

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