Best Posts in Thread: Does the Philippines suffer from water shortages?

we get our water tested every 6 months or so and also our holding tank is cleaned (we get maybe a spoon of silt from the tank) and it costs 1700 pesos to be tested, if we went down the road of a water station then the initial testing cost would be 10k pesos for the certification and a few more pesos to the mayor and his cohorts, our water is well within the required parameters and again one of the best investments I ever made

 

Understand one thing? there is 3 ways to do a job, the right way, the wrong way and the Filipino way this being the fastest and cheapest option and just may last to the end of the day? I'm thinking suppose they do fix one leak thus increasing the pressure in that particular length of pipe? does that create another two more in that same pipe joints that are just hanging by a thread? In Valencia where our house is water is close to being free we pay around P35 a month for our water supply, but this water is full of silt and even small twigs and leaves about once a month we have to clean out the small filter which is placed just before the water enters our meter, not our responsibility I know, but it gets the job done so much faster than if we reported it. we now have a filter system installed before our holding tank, before that we had problems with our taps getting clogged up with this fine silt, for anyone that does not know a filter system is an easy install and quite cheap to run, our system has two filters the first being one with a plastic mesh filter which is easy to clean and this we must do about once a month the other one, is a disposable paper element of 5 Microns, we need to change this about 4 times a year, to buy one element out of the big hardware stores is around p450, but they are readily available from Shopee or Lazada for P125.

 

And the 4th way you forgot, there's the British way...
"Or take water. Since 1990 the population of the UK has risen by about 10 million to 67 million but not a single new reservoir has been built in the past three decades. More than 200,000 miles of water pipes date back to Victorian times yet the water companies are replacing them at a rate of 0.05% a year."
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ailure-to-invest-cost-of-living-drought-covid

Maybe the past generations that had it so good in the west didn't think beyond the next few decades, that is probably worse than the developing countries doing it "fastest and cheapest"

 

In addition to what's already been posted, the state of the local water infrastructure systems is commonly deplorable.
In Dumaguete, the local water company announced that they were drawing up plans to improve system leakage, responsible for a staggering 41% loss. The company purportedly fixed 3,300 leaks in their first year of existence, but judging by the still low water pressure that hasn't made much of a difference yet.
In the past, many households who could afford to (yours truly included) have installed a system at their home to improve the water pressure. (storage tank, pressure tank and pump).

 

With some expensive alternatives suggested, would it be relatively cheap to buy a few of those big blue water tanks for water storage 'in case'. The two of us lasted 3-4 days (when our electricity was out after Odette) from just one medium size tank on our tower - we needed the electricity to operate the pump that transfers water from our one large blue ground tank up to the tower, but could have taken some out by bucket if necessary.

And don't forget: If it's yellow then let it mellow but if it's brown (sorry for the pun Mr B!) then flush it down. That could save a bit.

 

Yes, you are right.

Depending where your lot is located you should think twice before you use it for drinking and cooking.

I assume a solution could be to use your water from the well for your pool, watering the flowers, for showering and toilet.

Our drinking water we are buying from a small shop in Valencia. This blue canisters, I think 25 Liter each.

For us it works fine.

 

we drilled our own well now maybe 7 years ago and cost 250k pesos all up, best money ever spent, a great comfort to be had from turning on the tap without the fingers crossed