Well, how would households react when early in the morning the members wake up without water?
We had that experience early yesterday morning when we found our faucets flowing air instead of water. We reviewed the notices we received through our mobile phone from the Davao City Water District (DCWD) to as far back as two weeks. Yet we could not find any notice of the other night’s water service outage.
As we are already aware our source is the water pumped by the Apo Agua Infrastructura to the DCWD’s storage facility in Biao Joaquin, some three kilometers from out rural residence. As to the failure of the water firm to inform the residents of the service interruption, we have no idea why.
We can only hope that such lapses in the DCWD service to its consumers be remedied by management.
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Talking of water distribution service in Davao City news reports said it is targeting a P21.4 billion for the city’s water development.
No doubt developing new sources of water for distribution to the city’s expanding population is welcome news. It is common knowledge that the residential areas are now encompassing the once considered rural and mostly agricultural communities. Large subdivisions are sprouting at places as far as 30 to 40 kilometers from the central business districts. And all these new residential enclaves will be needing reliable water supply for both household and business use.
Thus, we can understand that even at this early the DCWD is contemplating a major push in the development of new water sources as well as the systems it is adopting to enhance its operation.
Unfortunately for the consumers, a P21.4 billion development cost is too humongous to be realized. Therefore, what are the water consumers expecting next?
There is no need to tell water service subscribers. The answer is too obvious. So let the water consumers start waiting for a non-water deluge.
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The Duterte family-led opposition to the Marcos, Jr. administration is trying to goad the military and the police into withdrawing support to the incumbent President. The Duterte patriarch though is trying to cushion his call on the armed forces by saying that they need not stage a coup d’ etat to grab power but simply disobey the President who he said is now running a “fractured” governance.
He said the members of the armed services can just simply ignore the President when they have the notion that what he is doing or ordering them to do is detrimental to the Filipino people.
At the same time however, those who are acting like they are the voices of the Davao City-based “opposition” are openly calling for a people power if only to force the President into stepping out of Malacanang.
Possibly it is this current efforts of the pro-Duterte people that the “opposition” leaders are hoping the military will eventually join.
Unfortunately, the traditional opposition party, the militant groups, the labor sector, the business groups have not manifested enthusiasm in joining the current Duterte-Marcos, Jr. political clash. They are relatively silent, and their silence is not even intriguing.
And if the failure of the “new opposition” to substantiate its charges of massive corruption in the present national administration remains, it is likely the take of many unbiased political observers that the call for people power and for the military to withdraw support to the Marcos administration will fall on deaf ears.
While we believe that the “opposition” has good grounds for its disdain with the administration, perhaps it will further strengthen its position in its “war” with the Malacanang tenant and his gang if it can present documents on the corruption it has alleged to have been done by the President and his men.
Say, if the opposition has in its possession any document on the alleged sale of the 25 tons of gold reserve which we understand is under the custody of the Central Bank, it has to present it to the public and appropriate agencies. Or, if they have documents that the money from the Maharlika Wealth Fund has been siphoned to the pockets of Marcos, Jr., her wife Liza and to any other government officials with access to the fund by virtue of their responsibility thereof, the same document has to be made public.
If this can be done we are certain that the people will be getting out of their homes to go to EDSA, or wherever the Filipinos gather to show their People Power.
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