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00:00.0
Good morning everyone.
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It has been a year since the President created the Water Resources Management Office.
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April 27 of 2023 to be exact, when he signed the executive order creating our office.
00:15.0
The main objective of the office is to integrate and harmonize the different programs of the various agencies of government
00:24.2
with water-related functions such as DPWH, NIA, the Water Districts, LUA, and MWSS.
00:32.2
And I'm happy to report to everybody that after one year, first and foremost, we have completely mapped out our resources, our water resources.
00:42.4
Believe it or not, we are actually very rich in water resources.
00:47.1
I should probably qualify that because we are rich in water resources during the rainy season.
00:52.6
And during the dry season.
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This is our perennial issue that there is not enough water for irrigation, even for drinking water, and power generation such as what we are now seeing in Mindanao.
01:06.7
I'm also happy to report to everybody that over the past year, we have been coordinating with NIA, with Admin Guillen,
01:15.8
in transforming the different NIA facilities to become multipurpose facilities and not just for irrigation.
01:23.6
I think this is a very important issue.
01:24.2
I think this is a big step towards integrating our water resources.
01:30.8
And then for this year, we are again integrating flood control with Sekmani, Bunawan, and DPWH.
01:38.1
And I think this is a more harmonized way of rationalizing the infrastructure requirements that we have,
01:46.1
serving various purposes including water supply, flood control, irrigation, maybe even for ecotourism,
01:52.2
power generation.
01:54.2
Aquaculture, and so on and so forth.
01:57.5
Finally, the directive of the president this morning was very clear.
02:04.0
Forty million of our residents, Filipinos, do not have access to a formal water supply.
02:10.9
They still access water from springs, from creeks, some even rainwater.
02:18.5
They rely on rainwater for drinking water purposes.
02:22.4
And while we have big projects,
02:24.2
in line for large cities
02:26.2
such as Bacolod, Cebu,
02:30.2
Tarlac City, and so on,
02:32.3
we have to focus on the 40 million
02:35.9
population. And there are
02:38.4
a few strategies that we have in mind
02:40.2
in order for us to provide water
02:42.1
to these communities. Thank you.
02:44.6
Okay. Magandang umaga po.
02:46.6
May we know kung ano-anong
02:48.2
areas yung sinasabi natin na
02:50.0
40 million underserved populations?
02:52.6
Ano po yung pinakamarami?
02:55.2
Thank you, Maricel.
02:58.4
By far, most of them
03:00.2
are in Mindanao. A lot of the communities
03:03.3
still do not have access to a formal
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I should also mention,
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and this is a statistic that I hope
03:11.5
everyone remembers,
03:13.6
we have roughly around
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7,600 plus islands,
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but not many people
03:21.5
of those are small islands.
03:24.2
And many of these small islands
03:26.6
do have communities, mostly fisher
03:28.6
folks, and each and every
03:30.5
one of those do not have access to water.
03:33.7
The islands that I
03:34.8
refer to have an area
03:37.0
on average around
03:38.6
one square kilometer.
03:40.7
So they're really tiny islands.
03:43.5
And this is what the
03:44.6
President wants us to focus on.
03:47.2
And Yusek, you mentioned earlier
03:49.0
na meron kayong mga strategies
03:50.7
in mind. Ano-ano po itong strategies
03:52.9
na tinutukoy nyo?
03:54.2
Sige po. Yung unang strategiya na naisip
03:56.7
namin para sa small island baranggays
03:58.9
at nakakasa na po yan,
04:00.5
nagsimula na kami itong programa na to,
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ng tubig pang inom
04:08.1
through the desalination
04:12.1
Alam po ng lahat, yung desalination,
04:14.2
mahal po yan na proseso.
04:16.1
At saka kailangan ay may volume para
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medyo maibsan yung cost
04:20.6
ng infrastruktura.
04:22.8
But over the years, the technology,
04:24.2
has improved tremendously.
04:26.9
And now we have what are called
04:28.4
as modular desalination
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systems. Sinlaki lang siya
04:32.5
ng container van.
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At it can provide
04:37.1
up to around 500 families
04:40.5
in each and every
04:42.6
desalination plant.
04:46.5
Gaano kalaki po yung cost
04:48.3
na tinitingnan natin for this?
04:50.4
Depende sa dami ng
04:52.1
saservisyon tao, pero roughly,
