BACOLOD City – The Bacolod Bulk Water, Inc. (BBWI) – this capital city’s potable water service provider – is ready to address complaints hurled against it “one by one.”
This was according to a statement that BBWI chairman Ryan Yapkianwee released after he received a notice of violation from the Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa).
The notice was issued over BBWI’s “major violations” in its contract worth P1.1 billion with the city government.
The contract – signed in March 2016 – is for the 25-year bulk water delivery in Bacolod through Injection Point Nos. 1 and 2 in Barangay Granada and Barangay Mansilingan, respectively.
Baciwa wants BBWI to explain the non-delivery of bulk water in the city through Injection Point No. 1 even after efforts to expedite such.
Under the contract, BBWI must have begun delivering water to the city on Oct. 16, 2017.
But due to its failure to install its own pipes at the time, a six-month extension was given, Baciwa said.
Even after this, BBWI still was not able to deliver bulk water to households in Bacolod, it added.
Baciwa tried to troubleshoot this by allowing BBWI to connect to its pipes, with the approval of the Office of the Government Corporate Council.
Despite this, no written agreement was made, according to Baciwa, thus no water delivery was done.
But BBWI spokeswoman Atty. King Martinez said they have been “supplying potable water to the pipeline of Baciwa” since last year.
“It’s not disputed that the water supplied by BBWI was transmitted to Baciwa’s customers and consumed,” Martinez added.
In a statement, Yapkianwee said there “might be an error with either of the meters, or with the clearance between bends leading up to the flow meters.”
BBWI requested for a joint evaluation of the flow meter to determine the “error.”
BBWI is a consortium of three companies – Mactan Rock Industries, Inc., Tubig Pilipinas Group, Inc. and TGV Builders, Inc./PN
