An advocate of water for all on Friday urged President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to cleanse the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) of inept officials on the questions about the P309-million “standby cost” and the disallowed P1.8 billion in connection with the P21-billion Kaliwa Dam Project.

The Kaliwa Dam Project is expected to generate an additional 600 million liters of water per day by 2027 to Metro Manila and the surrounding areas.

Rodolfo “Ka RJ” Javellana Jr., national president of the United Filipino Consumers and Commuters and Water for All Movement (UFCC-WARMM), underscored the need for concrete solutions to address the water shortage.

“We wrote a letter to President Marcos, with the attached evidence, in connection with the P12-billion Kaliwa Dam project,” Javellana said in a media forum at Club Filipino in Greenhills, San Juan City.

In 1972, during the term of former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr., the NAWASA was renamed MWSS and in the succeeding years it was renamed the LWUA and the MWSS again.

“Former President Marcos Sr. saw the lack of water. But the Laiban Dam Project was stopped after his downfall,” Javellana said.

“Investors and the government just talked about the 25-year concessionaire agreement, and because of that we filed a case in court, including the 20-percent environmental charges,” he said.

Javellana said that was the time former President Rodrigo Duterte started cursing the oligarchs.