Maynilad Water inaugurates new STM community in QC

By Jimmyley I. Guzman

Sunday 8th of July 2012

QUEZON CITY, July 8 (PIA) -- The Maynilad Water Services, Inc. recently inaugurated another ‘Samahang Tubig Maynilad’ (STM) community in Quezon City.

In a release, the new STM community established in Sitio Bakal is composed of 250 households that used to rely on unsafe water supply from small, private deep wells.

“Providing communities with clean water, regardless of their social standing, has always been at the heart of our business. This is why we continue to help and empower communities so that they too may enjoy the benefits of having access to safe and affordable water,” Maynilad president and CEO Ricky P. Vargas said.

Vargas added that residents in the area now use potable surface water from Maynilad through the public faucet installed for their community.

According to Maynilad, the STM program seeks to address the issues that prevent communities of informal settlers from gaining access to safe, reliable, and affordable water.

Under this program, Maynilad organizes communities of informal settlers into cooperative-based organizations and give them values formation and skills training so they can manage the public faucets installed by the company.

Last year, the International Water Association (IWA) recognized Maynilad’s STM program under the Project Innovations Development Category. The award is given to excellent and innovative water and sanitation projects in low- and middle-income countries. (MAYNILAD/RJB/JEG-PIA NCR)

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