Primewater project boosts Dasma supply

DASMARIÑAS CITY, Cavite — As the demand for water grows with the city’s rapid development, PrimeWater Dasmariñas, in partnership with Dasmariñas Water District, continues to expand and upgrade its water infrastructure to better serve local communities.

One of the major efforts is the Paliparan 2C System Project, which now supports Barangays Paliparan I, II and III, featuring three pumping stations — Paliparan 2C, Nostalji Pump 2 and Greenwoods — a 1,000-cubic-meter reservoir, and a booster system. A completed pipe-laying project along Molino–Paliparan Road has also extended service coverage, especially in Paliparan III.

“We continue to prioritize areas with increasing demand to ensure improved water pressure and more consistent supply. These ongoing upgrades are part of our commitment to support the city’s development and enhance water service for our concessionaires,” PrimeWater management said.

Additional system projects are also in place such as the DBB System Project and the Paliparan 3 System Project which are currently under development and are expected to provide new and more water sources for the DBB and Paliparan areas once completed.

'We continue to prioritize areas with increasing demand to ensure improved water pressure and more consistent supply.'

Several subdivision-operated pumping stations — including those in Town and Country, Woodtown Residences, Westwood Highlands, Amaris Homes Phase 1 and 2, Tierra Vista Ayana Phase 2 — have also been turned over to PrimeWater for integration into the main network, improving coordination and service consistency.

With these projects in place, PrimeWater Dasmariñas and the Dasmariñas Water District continue to move forward with purpose — laying the groundwork for a more reliable and responsive water system for the city.

Meanwhile, the Leyte Metropolitan Water District (LMWD) board has voted to rescind its joint venture with Villar family owned Primewater Infrastructure Corporation (Primewater) due to the latter’s failure to comply its obligations that have resulted to poor delivery of water service in the city and nearby municipalities.

LMWD general manager Ronnie Cornico said the water district will send a position paper to the Local Water Utilities Administration to explain its decision to terminate the joint venture agreement and revert to its independent operation.

Cornico said Primewater fell short of its commitment to deliver 58,000 service connections when it only delivered 54,000, while the water pressure on the line declined to 2 psi (pounds per square inch) when it promised to deliver 10 psi, thus resulting to many households complaining of no water coming out of their faucets.

Cornico added that Primewater has also been failing to pay their contractors and suppliers on time thus resulting to shortage materials for repair, maintenance and project implementation.

He said the board’s decision to rescind the agreement came after a conduct of a review of its first five years of operation under the joint venture. He said problems of leaking pipes from consumers outside of Tacloban City surfaced during the review.

“These leaks on the pipes are the biggest culprit for the low water pressure and the biggest contributor to non-revenue water,” he said.

Cornico said he has been complaining this even to the head office in Metro Manila but he only gets promises that it will be fixed.

LMWD entered into a joint venture with Primewater in September 2019 despite apprehensions of water consumers that this may only result to higher water tariffs.