Save Water, Barangay Leaders Told

MANILA, Philippines --- The Department of Health (DOH) Center for Health Development - National Capital Region (NCR) on Monday urged barangay leaders to lead their constituents in conserving water and protecting the environment for the benefit of future generations.

DOH-NCR Director Eduardo C. Janairo emphasized this cause as it started its series of seminars for barangay captains and other community leaders that showed the importance of preserving water and other environmental resources.

"Each of us is responsible in protecting our water resources to ensure that current and future water uses are met and wastages are avoided. Our choices and our actions contribute to the well-being or deterioration of our environment. That is why we must safeguard it in order to have access to a clean source of drinking water which is very essential to good health," Janairo said.

Participants of the Lakbay Aral program toured the treatment plants of water providers in Metro Manila such as in La Mesa Dam in Quezon City.

Experts from the Manila Water Company and Maynilad gave the community leaders a glimpse of the various stages of water purification before they are distributed to residents and establishments in the NCR. The experts also explained the process of eliminating wastewater from the sewer or septic tank to its disposal in rivers. The presentations made by the water concessionaires involved the processes on water production, distribution and laboratory operations, service connection installations, pipelines maintenance and its information dissemination programs.

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Save Water, Barangay Leaders Told