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By Euan Paulo C. Añonuevo, Reporter
RESIDENTS of BF Homes may have to
wait a while longer before Maynilad Water Services Inc. resumes its
service, as the distributor wants debts incurred by the
subdivision’s water administrator paid first.
In a statement, Maynilad said
that it is willing to connect the 50,000 households in BF Homes to
its water network provided Philippine Waterworks Construction Corp.
(Philwater) agrees to settle its unpaid bill amounting to P5
million.
Maynilad, which is now controlled
by the DMCI-Metro Pacific Consortium, used to supply water to the
subdivision, but was later forced to disconnect the service due to
Philwater’s non-payment of arrears.
“Another option is to deal
directly with the homeowners association, provided the
[subdivision’s] developer turns over the water system to them.
These have been relayed to the concerned parties through the
intercession of Mayor Flo-rencio Bernabe of Parañaque City,”
Fiorello Estuar, Maynilad president, said.
Maynilad has been negotiating
with the developer of BF Homes since 2002 to no avail.
The distributor, which controls
the West zone concession of state-run Metropolitan Waterworks and
Sewerage System, said the developer refuses to give Maynilad the
right-of-way to connect the subdivision to it network.
Maynilad recently resumed water
service to nine other subdivisions along President’s Avenue in
Parañaque with its “Bring More Water to the South” program.
This was after it reenergized the
750-milllimeter mainline along President’s Avenue on the eastern
part of Barangay BF.
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