Best Posts in Thread: Water (Lack Thereof)

Around a year ago we had no water due to our plastic feed pipe being broken about 10m before the meter, the water guy (when he eventually came) said he would replace the pipe and we have to pay, i said whats before the meter is your (the water companys responsibility) after much argument i gave in AGAIN as it would only cost a few hundred pesos and we would have water.
Thats when i found out that every house in our street had it's own 1/2" pipe coming from a 6" pipe around 300m away, no wonder the pressure is crap.
Thats why i laugh when i meet these guys that call themselves engineers (their mother maybe slept with an engineer) thats why they end up stoking the boilers when they go and work overseas and wipe the sweat off with their engineering diploma from sillyman university or wherever.

 

The complaints desk at DDWC does work and if required repair people will be with you very quickly

 

None! but that charlie is not the issue, they say that they need to conserve the Pumps If the pumps are not running at 1 am then they are conserving themselves. If properly maintained? There should be NO problem.
Every 2/3 days I have to go to my MIL (94) and clean the Filters out. I broached this with DWD and they say basically TOUGH

 

Closing the loop on this. Now my water pressure during the daytime is enough to supply my upstairs CR all day!

Been this way for the past 3-4 days now and I'm happy to be able to take a hot shower (upstairs) even if it's 1 pm!

 

What do they consider good enough for repair? My apartment has water but the pressure is far to weak to go upstairs and it drizzles out of the shower instead of spray. It takes 10+ minutes to fill a bucket that at other places I have been would take 2 minutes. From my experience here that isn't a worthy complaint to them as if it drips its good enough.

 

I try hard not to give myself unnecessary stressful experiences nowadays. I did the complaints routines when I lived in Cebu and nothing good ever came of it. Just wasted days of my time dealing with customer service folks that had endless excuses. :(

As it's an intermittent problem, I was only wondering if someone also experienced this and perhaps they knew of the reason behind it.

 

Have you tried to go to the DCWD office? (They actually have a complaint's desk).

 

It does get pretty ridiculous and their utter lack at fixing leaks all over. When they do rarely fix a leak all they do is wrap rubber around the leak and tie it which of course still leaks but just less. They don't upgrade their system yet they still hook up new places when they can't even provide adequete water the places they are supposed to provide for already.

One thing I think would make a major difference is removing every single water bottling place off the public water system. Require them to have deep wells of their own. So many of these places don't just have their water going full blast but use a suction pump to suck out as much water as possible from the pipes. Yes, it would make it harder to get bottled water but given some time things will just change up plus many of these small places that sell bottled water sell it right out of their garden hose w/o any filtering and pass it off.

 

I live in the lower Camanjac (near Sibulan / St. Paul) area of Dumaguete and have just recently been suffering from no water pressure or very low water pressure now for perhaps 4 days now.

Sure, I understand that I get no water pressure from 11 pm to maybe 5 am, but, for example, it's now 3 pm on Tuesday and there's no water at all. It's been that way on and off. I initially had water today from maybe 5 am to around 10 am. Now nothing.

This is a new program? Too much rain, so no water?

At least now my internet is 'working' again and I have 130 Kbps!

Edit: I just checked at 3:30 pm and now have decent water pressure. Enough to use the 2nd floor shower. Usually the water pressure is only good enough for the 2nd floor from 6 am to maybe 10 am. Makes me wonder why there are so many 2 story townhouses being built around the area?