00:00More than 5,000 families in the mountain barangays of Cebu City will now have water supply.
00:06This is through the expansion project of pipes in their area.
00:10This is Jesse Atienza of PTB Cebu for the details.
00:18The LGU of Cebu City and Metro Cebu Water District officials
00:23led the ground-breaking ceremony
00:26for the expansion of pipes in the mountain barangays of Cebu City.
00:33Up to eight mountain barangays will benefit from the expansion project.
00:37But the acting mayor couldn't avoid embarrassment
00:41due to the long delay of the project.
00:44It was so much delayed.
00:51One year had passed.
00:54There was no action on the excavation permit.
00:57The excavation permit is important
01:00because it will now allow them to dig underground
01:04and put their pipes.
01:08They will lay them down in their respective houses.
01:12One year had passed.
01:14At least, if this is approved by the acting mayor,
01:17there will be no ground-breaking.
01:19The MCWD hopes that the residents will be given
01:22clean and safe water supply.
01:25The residents of barangay Agsungot, like Rhea,
01:28will benefit from the project.
01:30She has been living here for almost 20 years.
01:33She is struggling to get water from the river or from the balloon.
01:37We are worried because we don't have access to water.
01:43We have no access to water.
01:47We don't have access to electricity.
01:50We don't have electricity.
01:55According to the MCWD,
01:57their target is to finish the expansion project
01:59within more than half a year.
02:02From PTV Cebu,
02:04Jesse Atienza for Pambansang TV
02:07in Bagong, Philippines.
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