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THE struggle over the management of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) continues, but the camp of Jose Daluz III, chairman of the board of directors suspended by the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA), voiced willingness to meet with the LWUA-appointed officer-in-charge general manager, but only “as a person,” not as a general manager.This was what Daluz and LWUA-suspended general manager Edgar Donoso said following the statement of Joselito Thomas Baena that he planned to meet with the officials suspended by the LWUA, referring to the camp of Daluz and Donoso.Meanwhile, the Cebu City Government reported that Baena, who was appointed OIC GM last Monday, April 22, 2024, had already visited 11 barangays and found them dissatisfied over the local water district’s handling of the effects of the El Niño phenomenon amid its failure to address their woes. “As a person, maybe yes, but if he will claim to be a GM, under what authority?” said Donoso in an interview on “Beyond the Headlines,” SunStar Cebu’s online news and commentary program, on Wednesday, April 24.In the same interview, Daluz said he wanted to hear Baena’s proposal to address the water problem amid the El Niño.Daluz said should a meeting be held, it should be outside the MCWD building to avoid any confusion among the people.“Second, we want to hear his proposal for El Niño, because that’s the immediate problem, but we will not talk about other things,” said Daluz in a mix of Cebuano and English.The LWUA suspended Daluz and fellow board members Miguelito Pato and Jodelyn May Seno for six months last March 15 to make way for a probe into MCWD’s high non-revenue water (NRW), as well as their alleged failure to follow procurement laws, while Donoso was suspended for 90 days by the LWUA-installed interim board last April 12 for defying its request to turn over documents on the MCWD’s transactions. The LWUA-installed interim board at the MCWD appointed Baena to serve as OIC GM during Donoso’s suspension.However, Donoso and the Daluz-led MCWD board of directors do not recognize the LWUA’s authority to suspend them. Low to no supplyAccording to the Cebu City Public Information Office (PIO) Wednesday, Baena had already visited Barangays Sambag 1, Sambag 2, Sta. Cruz, San Antonio, Tinago, Barrio Luz, Kamputhaw, San Nicolas Proper, Suba, Duljo Fatima and Pasil, where consumers were now “restless” as the MCWD had failed to explain the current situation to them.Baena said most of the mentioned barangays have had no water for the past three days, while Pasil has had “zero” water supply for more than a month already.In Barrio Luz, consumers complained that the MCWD prohibited them from getting water from the fire hydrant, according to the PIO report.Aside from intermittent to no water supply experienced in these barangays, Baena also found that some consumers had a hefty water bill despite the unstable water supply.Update neededIn a phone interview on Wednesday, MCWD information officer Minerva Gerodias confirmed that the 11 barangays mentioned by Baena were additional barangays that had been affected by the continuing deficit of water supply. Gerodias said they would update the list of barangays to which the MCWD had provided water rations with the use of water tankers to include these 11 barangays. As of April 17, the MCWD had listed only 12 barangays in three cities in its franchise area as having been “severely affected” by water shortages. These are Barangays Umapad, Opao, Alang-alang, Looc and Subangdaku in Mandaue City; Lorega San Miguel, Binaliw, San Jose, Talamban and Pit-os in Cebu City; and Cansojong and San Roque in Talisay City.Gerodias added that they were managing their water supply well in order to distribute the water fairly. Regarding the fire hydrants, Gerodias said they were regulating the number of fire hydrants from which people could extract water. She said only fire hydrants equipped with meters would be accessible to the public, allowing the monitoring of the amount of water extracted. “We will give them the areas where they can get water because if we allow them to draw water from just any hydrant, that will further increase our NRW,” Gerodias said in Cebuano.NRW refers to the water produced and lost before reaching consumers. It can occur through leaks and damaged pipes and includes free water that the MCWD provides for firefighting purposes.Last April 15, LWUA Administrator Jose Moises Salonga said MCWD’s NRW had been rising from 25.26 percent in 2020, to 29.04 percent in 2021, and then to 32.67 percent in 2022.Gerodias said from the hydrants equipped with meters, water would be accounted for, but unbilled, which means this water would not be considered as NRW. “Ang amo ra jud purpose is amo i-account ang tubig nga na-extract sa mga barangays,” Gerodias said. (Our only purpose is to account for the water extracted by the barangays.)She said this is the reason they encourage barangay officials to coordinate with the MCWD so that they can provide which hydrant is available for them.Second OICBaena replaced John Dx Lapid, MCWD’s customer care division head, who was first appointed by the LWUA interim board as OIC GM last April 12. Lapid resigned from the post last April 16 after a series of events that included his being barred from entering the MCWD main office on April 15, his entry into the building later that night with 70 City Hall personnel, some of whom broke into Donoso’s office, and the halting of frontline customer services such as bills payment and reconnection requests on April 16 after the suspended MCWD officials claimed that the “invasion” of its main office had scared and confused their employees. On Tuesday, his first day of work as OIC GM, Baena opted not to report physically to the MCWD main office building in downtown Cebu City to avoid causing another disruption of operations in the water district, after MCWD declared, on the day of his appointment, that it would maintain the status quo and prevent unauthorized access by non-MCWD personnel. Upon learning this, Baena said, the LWUA instructed him to focus on the barangays and get a “first-person, on-the-ground assessment.”Baena’s priorities, according to his interview on “Beyond the Headlines” on Tuesday, April 23, included meeting the officials suspended by the LWUA to resolve the issue on the regulator’s authority over them, as well as initiating a dialogue with the stakeholders, including the employees and the consumers, to identify problems in the local water district and how to resolve them.With the behavior shown by Baena, Donoso thanked him for showing a “sign of respect and professionalism in handling this kind of crisis.”“Basin di pud siguro na sya interesado pud. Medyo napugos lang pud guro siya. Nevertheless, pasalamaton ko niya sa mga lihok nga iyang gipakita pud (Maybe he’s also not interested in the role. Maybe he was pressured into it only. Nevertheless, I thank him for the actions he has shown),” said Donoso.But Donoso said only the board of directors can appoint the GM and no one else.ChallengeBaena said the ongoing crisis at the MCWD management would be a challenge for him, with some issues he needs to face as OIC GM being to prevent a leadership vacuum at the MCWD and to ensure that consumers’ access to water supply remains unaffected.“There is a lot of balancing act to do. How to accomplish the objectives of LWUA that is to look into the anomalies, to enforce the directive sa suspension ni Joey and Mr. (Edgar) Donoso but at the same time, to ensure nga wala’y disruptions,” the PIO report quoted Baena as saying.According to the report, Baena has sought the help of MCWD’s retired employees and officials to help address the technical aspects of the LWUA’s probe.Baena said MCWD continues to bar the LWUA-appointed interim board from entering the main office. / JJL / AML Online Reservations at Philippine Casinos Philippines INCUMBENT Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) board members Earl Bonachita and Danilo Ortiz have told members of the board led by Jose Daluz III to stop interfering with their duties. Bonachita and Ortiz have sent formal notices to Daluz, Miguelito Pato, Jodelyn May Seno, MCWD general manager Edgar Donoso and the MCWD Secretariat, stressing that they are still bona fide board members.The two men said Daluz should stop denying them their rights to notices of meetings or attending board members, including being copy furnished documents relating to the board. On Dec. 21, the Daluz-led board removed Bonachita, who represented the education sector, and Ortiz, who represented the civil sector, as members, a month after Daluz issued a show-cause order against the two due to their failure to attend meetings and for conducting unauthorized board meetings with other individuals. Daluz then declared their board seats vacant.However, Bonachita and Ortiz called their attempted removal “illegal” and without “statutory basis.”They said they never vacated nor have they been removed from their position.NoticeIn a copy of the notice sent to SunStar Cebu on Monday, Feb. 26, Bonachita and Ortiz reminded Daluz, Pato and Seno that they have been removed from office since August 2023, with Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama appointing retired military general Melquiades Feliciano, Aristotle Batuhan, and Nelson Yuvallos to replace them last Oct. 31. Bonachita and Ortiz explained that they no longer recognized the Daluz-led board, as stipulated in their reply letter on Dec. 4, regarding the show-cause order against them. The two men said they did not want to participate in the Daluz-led board due its alleged questionable policies, particularly on the insistence of the desalinated water project that put the MCWD at risk of bankruptcy.However, that did not mean they abdicated their duties as MCWD board members, they said.Bonachita and Ortiz said there were attempts to bar their rights to notice of meetings, to attend such meetings, and to be fully informed of decisions at such meetings. SunStar Cebu tried to reach out to Daluz for comment, but to no avail.On the other hand, Donoso was also reminded to confer and seek the approval of the board led by Feliciano on future actions of the water districts. Bonachita and Ortiz told Donoso to furnish copies of the agenda of the meeting, minutes, notices, board resolutions, and other related documents relative to the official MCWD business. Bonachita and Ortiz assumed office in January 2023, succeeding Manolette Dinsay and Frank Malilong Jr., whose terms ended in December 2022.Both Bonachita and Ortiz’s terms will end in December 2028. / EHP

INCUMBENT Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) board members Earl Bonachita and Danilo Ortiz have told members of the board led by Jose Daluz III to stop interfering with their duties. Bonachita and Ortiz have sent formal notices to Daluz, Miguelito Pato, Jodelyn May Seno, MCWD general manager Edgar Donoso and the MCWD Secretariat, stressing that they are still bona fide board members.The two men said Daluz should stop denying them their rights to notices of meetings or attending board members, including being copy furnished documents relating to the board. On Dec. 21, the Daluz-led board removed Bonachita, who represented the education sector, and Ortiz, who represented the civil sector, as members, a month after Daluz issued a show-cause order against the two due to their failure to attend meetings and for conducting unauthorized board meetings with other individuals. Daluz then declared their board seats vacant.However, Bonachita and Ortiz called their attempted removal “illegal” and without “statutory basis.”They said they never vacated nor have they been removed from their position.NoticeIn a copy of the notice sent to SunStar Cebu on Monday, Feb. 26, Bonachita and Ortiz reminded Daluz, Pato and Seno that they have been removed from office since August 2023, with Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama appointing retired military general Melquiades Feliciano, Aristotle Batuhan, and Nelson Yuvallos to replace them last Oct. 31. Bonachita and Ortiz explained that they no longer recognized the Daluz-led board, as stipulated in their reply letter on Dec. 4, regarding the show-cause order against them. The two men said they did not want to participate in the Daluz-led board due its alleged questionable policies, particularly on the insistence of the desalinated water project that put the MCWD at risk of bankruptcy.However, that did not mean they abdicated their duties as MCWD board members, they said.Bonachita and Ortiz said there were attempts to bar their rights to notice of meetings, to attend such meetings, and to be fully informed of decisions at such meetings. SunStar Cebu tried to reach out to Daluz for comment, but to no avail.On the other hand, Donoso was also reminded to confer and seek the approval of the board led by Feliciano on future actions of the water districts. Bonachita and Ortiz told Donoso to furnish copies of the agenda of the meeting, minutes, notices, board resolutions, and other related documents relative to the official MCWD business. Bonachita and Ortiz assumed office in January 2023, succeeding Manolette Dinsay and Frank Malilong Jr., whose terms ended in December 2022.Both Bonachita and Ortiz’s terms will end in December 2028. / EHP How do you do a wager on FIFA? THE Department of Health (DOH) has urged parents to have their children vaccinated, as it expressed concern over the increase in the number of deaths due to vaccine-preventable diseases, particularly pertussis or whooping cough and measles.In a statement, Health Secretary Ted Herbosa said vaccines to prevent these pertussis and measles are free of charge if availed in local health centers. The DOH said 453 cases of pertussis were recorded in the first 10 weeks of 2024, 1,870 percent higher than the 23 cases during the same period in 2023. Only 52 cases of the disease were recorded in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic, 27 in 2020, seven in 2021 and two in 2022.The Quezon City local government earlier declared a pertussis outbreak with 23 cases reported as of March 20, in which four patients died.In 2023, there were only a total of 27 pertussis cases in the city. Pertussis is a highly contagious bacterial respiratory infection that causes influenza-like symptoms like mild fever, cough and colds.“Ang Pertussis o Whooping Cough ay nagdudulot ng matinis at ipit na paghinga matapos ang pag-ubo. Ang bata ay maaaring makaranas ng apnea o pagtigil sa paghinga, pagkahirap sa paghinga, at pagsusuka,” the DOH said.(Pertussis or Whooping Cough causes wheezing after coughing. The child may experience apnea or cessation of breathing, difficulty breathing, and vomiting.)A person with pertussis can infect 18 more individuals, including children. Immunization against pertussis can prevent respiratory complications.The DOH said the routine immunization particularly of children was disrupted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This includes immunization against pentavalent diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, haemophilus influenzae type B, and measles, mumps and rubella which are all free of charge in local health centers. As of 2024, a total of 569 cases of rubella and measles were recorded in the country. The DOH cases of these diseases increases in all regions except in Bicol and Central Visayas. (TPM/SunStar Philippines)

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THE Department of Health (DOH) has urged parents to have their children vaccinated, as it expressed concern over the increase in the number of deaths due to vaccine-preventable diseases, particularly pertussis or whooping cough and measles.In a statement, Health Secretary Ted Herbosa said vaccines to prevent these pertussis and measles are free of charge if availed in local health centers. The DOH said 453 cases of pertussis were recorded in the first 10 weeks of 2024, 1,870 percent higher than the 23 cases during the same period in 2023. Only 52 cases of the disease were recorded in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic, 27 in 2020, seven in 2021 and two in 2022.The Quezon City local government earlier declared a pertussis outbreak with 23 cases reported as of March 20, in which four patients died.In 2023, there were only a total of 27 pertussis cases in the city. Pertussis is a highly contagious bacterial respiratory infection that causes influenza-like symptoms like mild fever, cough and colds.“Ang Pertussis o Whooping Cough ay nagdudulot ng matinis at ipit na paghinga matapos ang pag-ubo. Ang bata ay maaaring makaranas ng apnea o pagtigil sa paghinga, pagkahirap sa paghinga, at pagsusuka,” the DOH said.(Pertussis or Whooping Cough causes wheezing after coughing. The child may experience apnea or cessation of breathing, difficulty breathing, and vomiting.)A person with pertussis can infect 18 more individuals, including children. Immunization against pertussis can prevent respiratory complications.The DOH said the routine immunization particularly of children was disrupted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This includes immunization against pentavalent diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, haemophilus influenzae type B, and measles, mumps and rubella which are all free of charge in local health centers. As of 2024, a total of 569 cases of rubella and measles were recorded in the country. The DOH cases of these diseases increases in all regions except in Bicol and Central Visayas. (TPM/SunStar Philippines) How do you do a wager on FIFA? THE struggle over the management of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) continues, but the camp of Jose Daluz III, chairman of the board of directors suspended by the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA), voiced willingness to meet with the LWUA-appointed officer-in-charge general manager, but only “as a person,” not as a general manager.This was what Daluz and LWUA-suspended general manager Edgar Donoso said following the statement of Joselito Thomas Baena that he planned to meet with the officials suspended by the LWUA, referring to the camp of Daluz and Donoso.Meanwhile, the Cebu City Government reported that Baena, who was appointed OIC GM last Monday, April 22, 2024, had already visited 11 barangays and found them dissatisfied over the local water district’s handling of the effects of the El Niño phenomenon amid its failure to address their woes. “As a person, maybe yes, but if he will claim to be a GM, under what authority?” said Donoso in an interview on “Beyond the Headlines,” SunStar Cebu’s online news and commentary program, on Wednesday, April 24.In the same interview, Daluz said he wanted to hear Baena’s proposal to address the water problem amid the El Niño.Daluz said should a meeting be held, it should be outside the MCWD building to avoid any confusion among the people.“Second, we want to hear his proposal for El Niño, because that’s the immediate problem, but we will not talk about other things,” said Daluz in a mix of Cebuano and English.The LWUA suspended Daluz and fellow board members Miguelito Pato and Jodelyn May Seno for six months last March 15 to make way for a probe into MCWD’s high non-revenue water (NRW), as well as their alleged failure to follow procurement laws, while Donoso was suspended for 90 days by the LWUA-installed interim board last April 12 for defying its request to turn over documents on the MCWD’s transactions. The LWUA-installed interim board at the MCWD appointed Baena to serve as OIC GM during Donoso’s suspension.However, Donoso and the Daluz-led MCWD board of directors do not recognize the LWUA’s authority to suspend them. Low to no supplyAccording to the Cebu City Public Information Office (PIO) Wednesday, Baena had already visited Barangays Sambag 1, Sambag 2, Sta. Cruz, San Antonio, Tinago, Barrio Luz, Kamputhaw, San Nicolas Proper, Suba, Duljo Fatima and Pasil, where consumers were now “restless” as the MCWD had failed to explain the current situation to them.Baena said most of the mentioned barangays have had no water for the past three days, while Pasil has had “zero” water supply for more than a month already.In Barrio Luz, consumers complained that the MCWD prohibited them from getting water from the fire hydrant, according to the PIO report.Aside from intermittent to no water supply experienced in these barangays, Baena also found that some consumers had a hefty water bill despite the unstable water supply.Update neededIn a phone interview on Wednesday, MCWD information officer Minerva Gerodias confirmed that the 11 barangays mentioned by Baena were additional barangays that had been affected by the continuing deficit of water supply. Gerodias said they would update the list of barangays to which the MCWD had provided water rations with the use of water tankers to include these 11 barangays. As of April 17, the MCWD had listed only 12 barangays in three cities in its franchise area as having been “severely affected” by water shortages. These are Barangays Umapad, Opao, Alang-alang, Looc and Subangdaku in Mandaue City; Lorega San Miguel, Binaliw, San Jose, Talamban and Pit-os in Cebu City; and Cansojong and San Roque in Talisay City.Gerodias added that they were managing their water supply well in order to distribute the water fairly. Regarding the fire hydrants, Gerodias said they were regulating the number of fire hydrants from which people could extract water. She said only fire hydrants equipped with meters would be accessible to the public, allowing the monitoring of the amount of water extracted. “We will give them the areas where they can get water because if we allow them to draw water from just any hydrant, that will further increase our NRW,” Gerodias said in Cebuano.NRW refers to the water produced and lost before reaching consumers. It can occur through leaks and damaged pipes and includes free water that the MCWD provides for firefighting purposes.Last April 15, LWUA Administrator Jose Moises Salonga said MCWD’s NRW had been rising from 25.26 percent in 2020, to 29.04 percent in 2021, and then to 32.67 percent in 2022.Gerodias said from the hydrants equipped with meters, water would be accounted for, but unbilled, which means this water would not be considered as NRW. “Ang amo ra jud purpose is amo i-account ang tubig nga na-extract sa mga barangays,” Gerodias said. (Our only purpose is to account for the water extracted by the barangays.)She said this is the reason they encourage barangay officials to coordinate with the MCWD so that they can provide which hydrant is available for them.Second OICBaena replaced John Dx Lapid, MCWD’s customer care division head, who was first appointed by the LWUA interim board as OIC GM last April 12. Lapid resigned from the post last April 16 after a series of events that included his being barred from entering the MCWD main office on April 15, his entry into the building later that night with 70 City Hall personnel, some of whom broke into Donoso’s office, and the halting of frontline customer services such as bills payment and reconnection requests on April 16 after the suspended MCWD officials claimed that the “invasion” of its main office had scared and confused their employees. On Tuesday, his first day of work as OIC GM, Baena opted not to report physically to the MCWD main office building in downtown Cebu City to avoid causing another disruption of operations in the water district, after MCWD declared, on the day of his appointment, that it would maintain the status quo and prevent unauthorized access by non-MCWD personnel. Upon learning this, Baena said, the LWUA instructed him to focus on the barangays and get a “first-person, on-the-ground assessment.”Baena’s priorities, according to his interview on “Beyond the Headlines” on Tuesday, April 23, included meeting the officials suspended by the LWUA to resolve the issue on the regulator’s authority over them, as well as initiating a dialogue with the stakeholders, including the employees and the consumers, to identify problems in the local water district and how to resolve them.With the behavior shown by Baena, Donoso thanked him for showing a “sign of respect and professionalism in handling this kind of crisis.”“Basin di pud siguro na sya interesado pud. Medyo napugos lang pud guro siya. Nevertheless, pasalamaton ko niya sa mga lihok nga iyang gipakita pud (Maybe he’s also not interested in the role. Maybe he was pressured into it only. Nevertheless, I thank him for the actions he has shown),” said Donoso.But Donoso said only the board of directors can appoint the GM and no one else.ChallengeBaena said the ongoing crisis at the MCWD management would be a challenge for him, with some issues he needs to face as OIC GM being to prevent a leadership vacuum at the MCWD and to ensure that consumers’ access to water supply remains unaffected.“There is a lot of balancing act to do. How to accomplish the objectives of LWUA that is to look into the anomalies, to enforce the directive sa suspension ni Joey and Mr. (Edgar) Donoso but at the same time, to ensure nga wala’y disruptions,” the PIO report quoted Baena as saying.According to the report, Baena has sought the help of MCWD’s retired employees and officials to help address the technical aspects of the LWUA’s probe.Baena said MCWD continues to bar the LWUA-appointed interim board from entering the main office. / JJL / AML

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THE struggle over the management of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) continues, but the camp of Jose Daluz III, chairman of the board of directors suspended by the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA), voiced willingness to meet with the LWUA-appointed officer-in-charge general manager, but only “as a person,” not as a general manager.This was what Daluz and LWUA-suspended general manager Edgar Donoso said following the statement of Joselito Thomas Baena that he planned to meet with the officials suspended by the LWUA, referring to the camp of Daluz and Donoso.Meanwhile, the Cebu City Government reported that Baena, who was appointed OIC GM last Monday, April 22, 2024, had already visited 11 barangays and found them dissatisfied over the local water district’s handling of the effects of the El Niño phenomenon amid its failure to address their woes. “As a person, maybe yes, but if he will claim to be a GM, under what authority?” said Donoso in an interview on “Beyond the Headlines,” SunStar Cebu’s online news and commentary program, on Wednesday, April 24.In the same interview, Daluz said he wanted to hear Baena’s proposal to address the water problem amid the El Niño.Daluz said should a meeting be held, it should be outside the MCWD building to avoid any confusion among the people.“Second, we want to hear his proposal for El Niño, because that’s the immediate problem, but we will not talk about other things,” said Daluz in a mix of Cebuano and English.The LWUA suspended Daluz and fellow board members Miguelito Pato and Jodelyn May Seno for six months last March 15 to make way for a probe into MCWD’s high non-revenue water (NRW), as well as their alleged failure to follow procurement laws, while Donoso was suspended for 90 days by the LWUA-installed interim board last April 12 for defying its request to turn over documents on the MCWD’s transactions. The LWUA-installed interim board at the MCWD appointed Baena to serve as OIC GM during Donoso’s suspension.However, Donoso and the Daluz-led MCWD board of directors do not recognize the LWUA’s authority to suspend them. Low to no supplyAccording to the Cebu City Public Information Office (PIO) Wednesday, Baena had already visited Barangays Sambag 1, Sambag 2, Sta. Cruz, San Antonio, Tinago, Barrio Luz, Kamputhaw, San Nicolas Proper, Suba, Duljo Fatima and Pasil, where consumers were now “restless” as the MCWD had failed to explain the current situation to them.Baena said most of the mentioned barangays have had no water for the past three days, while Pasil has had “zero” water supply for more than a month already.In Barrio Luz, consumers complained that the MCWD prohibited them from getting water from the fire hydrant, according to the PIO report.Aside from intermittent to no water supply experienced in these barangays, Baena also found that some consumers had a hefty water bill despite the unstable water supply.Update neededIn a phone interview on Wednesday, MCWD information officer Minerva Gerodias confirmed that the 11 barangays mentioned by Baena were additional barangays that had been affected by the continuing deficit of water supply. Gerodias said they would update the list of barangays to which the MCWD had provided water rations with the use of water tankers to include these 11 barangays. As of April 17, the MCWD had listed only 12 barangays in three cities in its franchise area as having been “severely affected” by water shortages. These are Barangays Umapad, Opao, Alang-alang, Looc and Subangdaku in Mandaue City; Lorega San Miguel, Binaliw, San Jose, Talamban and Pit-os in Cebu City; and Cansojong and San Roque in Talisay City.Gerodias added that they were managing their water supply well in order to distribute the water fairly. Regarding the fire hydrants, Gerodias said they were regulating the number of fire hydrants from which people could extract water. She said only fire hydrants equipped with meters would be accessible to the public, allowing the monitoring of the amount of water extracted. “We will give them the areas where they can get water because if we allow them to draw water from just any hydrant, that will further increase our NRW,” Gerodias said in Cebuano.NRW refers to the water produced and lost before reaching consumers. It can occur through leaks and damaged pipes and includes free water that the MCWD provides for firefighting purposes.Last April 15, LWUA Administrator Jose Moises Salonga said MCWD’s NRW had been rising from 25.26 percent in 2020, to 29.04 percent in 2021, and then to 32.67 percent in 2022.Gerodias said from the hydrants equipped with meters, water would be accounted for, but unbilled, which means this water would not be considered as NRW. “Ang amo ra jud purpose is amo i-account ang tubig nga na-extract sa mga barangays,” Gerodias said. (Our only purpose is to account for the water extracted by the barangays.)She said this is the reason they encourage barangay officials to coordinate with the MCWD so that they can provide which hydrant is available for them.Second OICBaena replaced John Dx Lapid, MCWD’s customer care division head, who was first appointed by the LWUA interim board as OIC GM last April 12. Lapid resigned from the post last April 16 after a series of events that included his being barred from entering the MCWD main office on April 15, his entry into the building later that night with 70 City Hall personnel, some of whom broke into Donoso’s office, and the halting of frontline customer services such as bills payment and reconnection requests on April 16 after the suspended MCWD officials claimed that the “invasion” of its main office had scared and confused their employees. On Tuesday, his first day of work as OIC GM, Baena opted not to report physically to the MCWD main office building in downtown Cebu City to avoid causing another disruption of operations in the water district, after MCWD declared, on the day of his appointment, that it would maintain the status quo and prevent unauthorized access by non-MCWD personnel. Upon learning this, Baena said, the LWUA instructed him to focus on the barangays and get a “first-person, on-the-ground assessment.”Baena’s priorities, according to his interview on “Beyond the Headlines” on Tuesday, April 23, included meeting the officials suspended by the LWUA to resolve the issue on the regulator’s authority over them, as well as initiating a dialogue with the stakeholders, including the employees and the consumers, to identify problems in the local water district and how to resolve them.With the behavior shown by Baena, Donoso thanked him for showing a “sign of respect and professionalism in handling this kind of crisis.”“Basin di pud siguro na sya interesado pud. Medyo napugos lang pud guro siya. Nevertheless, pasalamaton ko niya sa mga lihok nga iyang gipakita pud (Maybe he’s also not interested in the role. Maybe he was pressured into it only. Nevertheless, I thank him for the actions he has shown),” said Donoso.But Donoso said only the board of directors can appoint the GM and no one else.ChallengeBaena said the ongoing crisis at the MCWD management would be a challenge for him, with some issues he needs to face as OIC GM being to prevent a leadership vacuum at the MCWD and to ensure that consumers’ access to water supply remains unaffected.“There is a lot of balancing act to do. How to accomplish the objectives of LWUA that is to look into the anomalies, to enforce the directive sa suspension ni Joey and Mr. (Edgar) Donoso but at the same time, to ensure nga wala’y disruptions,” the PIO report quoted Baena as saying.According to the report, Baena has sought the help of MCWD’s retired employees and officials to help address the technical aspects of the LWUA’s probe.Baena said MCWD continues to bar the LWUA-appointed interim board from entering the main office. / JJL / AML, check the following table to see what categories most online casinos in the Philippines fit in.

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THE struggle over the management of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) continues, but the camp of Jose Daluz III, chairman of the board of directors suspended by the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA), voiced willingness to meet with the LWUA-appointed officer-in-charge general manager, but only “as a person,” not as a general manager.This was what Daluz and LWUA-suspended general manager Edgar Donoso said following the statement of Joselito Thomas Baena that he planned to meet with the officials suspended by the LWUA, referring to the camp of Daluz and Donoso.Meanwhile, the Cebu City Government reported that Baena, who was appointed OIC GM last Monday, April 22, 2024, had already visited 11 barangays and found them dissatisfied over the local water district’s handling of the effects of the El Niño phenomenon amid its failure to address their woes. “As a person, maybe yes, but if he will claim to be a GM, under what authority?” said Donoso in an interview on “Beyond the Headlines,” SunStar Cebu’s online news and commentary program, on Wednesday, April 24.In the same interview, Daluz said he wanted to hear Baena’s proposal to address the water problem amid the El Niño.Daluz said should a meeting be held, it should be outside the MCWD building to avoid any confusion among the people.“Second, we want to hear his proposal for El Niño, because that’s the immediate problem, but we will not talk about other things,” said Daluz in a mix of Cebuano and English.The LWUA suspended Daluz and fellow board members Miguelito Pato and Jodelyn May Seno for six months last March 15 to make way for a probe into MCWD’s high non-revenue water (NRW), as well as their alleged failure to follow procurement laws, while Donoso was suspended for 90 days by the LWUA-installed interim board last April 12 for defying its request to turn over documents on the MCWD’s transactions. The LWUA-installed interim board at the MCWD appointed Baena to serve as OIC GM during Donoso’s suspension.However, Donoso and the Daluz-led MCWD board of directors do not recognize the LWUA’s authority to suspend them. Low to no supplyAccording to the Cebu City Public Information Office (PIO) Wednesday, Baena had already visited Barangays Sambag 1, Sambag 2, Sta. Cruz, San Antonio, Tinago, Barrio Luz, Kamputhaw, San Nicolas Proper, Suba, Duljo Fatima and Pasil, where consumers were now “restless” as the MCWD had failed to explain the current situation to them.Baena said most of the mentioned barangays have had no water for the past three days, while Pasil has had “zero” water supply for more than a month already.In Barrio Luz, consumers complained that the MCWD prohibited them from getting water from the fire hydrant, according to the PIO report.Aside from intermittent to no water supply experienced in these barangays, Baena also found that some consumers had a hefty water bill despite the unstable water supply.Update neededIn a phone interview on Wednesday, MCWD information officer Minerva Gerodias confirmed that the 11 barangays mentioned by Baena were additional barangays that had been affected by the continuing deficit of water supply. Gerodias said they would update the list of barangays to which the MCWD had provided water rations with the use of water tankers to include these 11 barangays. As of April 17, the MCWD had listed only 12 barangays in three cities in its franchise area as having been “severely affected” by water shortages. These are Barangays Umapad, Opao, Alang-alang, Looc and Subangdaku in Mandaue City; Lorega San Miguel, Binaliw, San Jose, Talamban and Pit-os in Cebu City; and Cansojong and San Roque in Talisay City.Gerodias added that they were managing their water supply well in order to distribute the water fairly. Regarding the fire hydrants, Gerodias said they were regulating the number of fire hydrants from which people could extract water. She said only fire hydrants equipped with meters would be accessible to the public, allowing the monitoring of the amount of water extracted. “We will give them the areas where they can get water because if we allow them to draw water from just any hydrant, that will further increase our NRW,” Gerodias said in Cebuano.NRW refers to the water produced and lost before reaching consumers. It can occur through leaks and damaged pipes and includes free water that the MCWD provides for firefighting purposes.Last April 15, LWUA Administrator Jose Moises Salonga said MCWD’s NRW had been rising from 25.26 percent in 2020, to 29.04 percent in 2021, and then to 32.67 percent in 2022.Gerodias said from the hydrants equipped with meters, water would be accounted for, but unbilled, which means this water would not be considered as NRW. “Ang amo ra jud purpose is amo i-account ang tubig nga na-extract sa mga barangays,” Gerodias said. (Our only purpose is to account for the water extracted by the barangays.)She said this is the reason they encourage barangay officials to coordinate with the MCWD so that they can provide which hydrant is available for them.Second OICBaena replaced John Dx Lapid, MCWD’s customer care division head, who was first appointed by the LWUA interim board as OIC GM last April 12. Lapid resigned from the post last April 16 after a series of events that included his being barred from entering the MCWD main office on April 15, his entry into the building later that night with 70 City Hall personnel, some of whom broke into Donoso’s office, and the halting of frontline customer services such as bills payment and reconnection requests on April 16 after the suspended MCWD officials claimed that the “invasion” of its main office had scared and confused their employees. On Tuesday, his first day of work as OIC GM, Baena opted not to report physically to the MCWD main office building in downtown Cebu City to avoid causing another disruption of operations in the water district, after MCWD declared, on the day of his appointment, that it would maintain the status quo and prevent unauthorized access by non-MCWD personnel. Upon learning this, Baena said, the LWUA instructed him to focus on the barangays and get a “first-person, on-the-ground assessment.”Baena’s priorities, according to his interview on “Beyond the Headlines” on Tuesday, April 23, included meeting the officials suspended by the LWUA to resolve the issue on the regulator’s authority over them, as well as initiating a dialogue with the stakeholders, including the employees and the consumers, to identify problems in the local water district and how to resolve them.With the behavior shown by Baena, Donoso thanked him for showing a “sign of respect and professionalism in handling this kind of crisis.”“Basin di pud siguro na sya interesado pud. Medyo napugos lang pud guro siya. Nevertheless, pasalamaton ko niya sa mga lihok nga iyang gipakita pud (Maybe he’s also not interested in the role. Maybe he was pressured into it only. 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