Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:22:40 +0000
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday said he was willing to talk to the embattled water concessionaires if they would return the money to the people. Duterte made the statement on Thursday as he reiterated that the government would not pay a single centavo from the billions of pesos in refund sought by Manila Water Co. […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:00:38 +0000
THE Manila Water Company, Inc. and Maynilad Water Services, Inc. backed down against President Rodrigo Duterte and won’t demand the enforcement of an arbitral court ruling ordering the Philippine government to pay over P10 billion for the losses they incurred when it denied their petition for a rate increase. The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in Singapore, […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 13:13:38 +0000
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday renewed his tirades against Manila Water Company Inc. and Maynilad Water Services Inc., accusing the concessionaires of committing “economic plunder.” During his visit to Legazpi, Albay, Duterte again slammed the concession agreements entered into by the government with the water firms, which he said, were tantamount to the country giving […]
Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:32:27 +0000
Harsher penalties must be imposed on the water concessionaires because the shortage in Metro Manila
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:14:17 +0000
Manila Water Co. Inc. may have announced a new schedule of water service interruptions effective on Tuesday
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Read moreCredit to Author: ANNA LEAH E. GONZALES| Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 02:30:25 +0000
THE Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) Board has penalized the Manila Water Company, Inc. more than P1 billion for the water shortage its consumers experienced in the early part…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: JORDEENE B. LAGARE| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 03:39:34 +0000
STILL reeling from the water crisis that hit about 1.2 million households in Metro Manila under his watch, the chief operating officer of the Manila Water Co has stepped down….READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: JORDEENE B. LAGARE| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 03:47:49 +0000
AT least 44 villages or 152,000 households will not be paying their water bill for March after their concessionaire identified them as having been the “most severely affected” by the…READ
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:36:26 +0000
The apology bears the names of Jaime Augusto, chair of the Ayala group and vice chair of Manila Water, and his brother Fernando, who serves as Manila Water chair.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 23:26:36 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Several customers of Manila Water Co. led by a party-list lawmaker petitioned the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) Regulatory Office on Monday to penalize the company for breach of contract for the water shortage in large areas of Metro Manila and parts of Rizal province early this month.
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