AMA GROUP HOLDINGS Chairman Amable R. Aguiluz V said AMA WATER is fast tracking its construction of a 300mld world-class water treatment plant along the lakeshore of Laguna Lake in its desire to help address the current water supply crisis being experienced in Metro Manila utilizing its’ water right up to 300mld granted by the Laguna Lake Development Authority.
Aguiluz said this project will be able to bring the much needed water supply augmentation within 10 months from its planned plant in an area close enough to the metro area. He said he will work out the required arrangements both with the Laguna Lake Development Authority and the MWSS in response to the President ‘s call to address this problem on a long- term basis.
Aguiluz said that Laguna Lake, the country’s biggest freshwater resource located close to the heart of the national capital region, was already being harnessed by both Maynilad in Putatan, Muntinlupa City at 300 mld and Manila Water in Cardona, Rizal at 120mld.
For this project, AMA GROUP HOLDINGS is partnering with Ion Exchange, a Singapore-based company with projects all over Asia, a $200-million Sri Lanka water treatment project being its latest. AMA WATER has signed as well an agreement with Aquagen Technologies Inc. (ATI) as its local technical advisors for this project. Thus Aguiluz is confident that AMA WATER is well positioned to deliver clean affordable drinking water to NCR going forward way ahead of other planned solutions like Kaliwa Dam which reportedly is scheduled to be operational in 2022 yet.
Aguiluz is recognized as the father of IT education in the Philippines. As an educator, he has always advocated quality affordable education for all. Now he intends to bring this vision to a fundamental need in every Filipino household- safe clean adequate potable drinking water./PN
