00:00Your water is being surrounded but our countrymen have no clean supply of it.
00:05Despite the proposed solution in the sectoral meeting with the President,
00:09the possible leak in the sea water, that's what I'm aiming for.
00:17If whenever you need water, you get it from a well or a well,
00:21you're luckier than the 40 million Filipinos who, until now,
00:25don't have a formal water supply and rely on wells, ditches, and sewage.
00:31We have roughly around 7,600 plus islands,
00:35but not many people know that 5,500 of those are small islands.
00:41And many of these small islands do have communities, mostly fisherfolks,
00:46and each and every one of those do not have access to water.
00:50President Bongbong Marcos assigned them to the Water Resources Management Office
00:54under the DNR in Pulong, Malacanang earlier.
00:57Because many of those communities are in small islands
01:00like Samora Autonomous Region in Muslim in the Now or BARMM,
01:04desalination or the process of filtering salt water to make it a clean drinking water
01:09is the immediate solution.
01:12Modular or small desalination systems are planned to be brought
01:16to the 65-island barangays that were prioritized.
01:19Currently, the DNR is talking to suppliers from Israel, Netherlands, or Singapore for this.
01:25We have what are called as modular desalination systems.
01:30It's as big as a container van.
01:32It can provide water to up to around 500 families in each and every desalination plant.
01:43It depends on how many people will be serviced but roughly 5 to 8 million pesos per plant.
01:50For the upcoming rainy season,
01:52the Department of Public Works and Highways in Pulong
01:56presented their plans to meet the needs of the local government.
02:00The President agreed to collect excess water and use it during the dry season.
02:07In many of the flood control projects that we'll be implementing,
02:11we will have to coordinate with the National Irrigation Administration
02:14or the Water Supply for structures or water impounding dumps to be specific
02:25that will be integrated into the flood control programs that the department will be undertaking.
02:31For GMA Integrated News, Ivan Mejrina for 24 Hours.
02:41For more information visit www.gma.gov
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