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By Darwin G. Amojelar, Reporter
AMID forecasts of a shortage
across the country, the National Economic and Development Authority
(NEDA) board has approved a project that would boost water supply in
Metro Manila and other parts of Luzon.
In a statement, NEDA said it
approved the P47.93-billion Laiban Dam Project, formerly the Manila
Water Supply Project III, which aims to provide long-term water
supply and raise it to about 1,900 million liters per day (MLD), or
22 cubic meters per second of water.
The project also intends to
address the exiting 1,122 MLD of water supply gap in the metropolis.
Besides water supply, the project
has a power component, which will augment the supply for the Luzon
grid. The hydroelectric power plant is projected to produce about 25
megawatts.
The dam will be located in the
Kaliwa River in Tanay, Rizal, on the central and southwestern parts
of the Sierra Madre.
The Laiban Dam Project, an
alternative to the Angat and Ipo dams, is expected to operate in
2016.
NEDA recently approved five
projects costing a total of P49.5 billion
These include the Cyber Education
Project amounting to P26.48 billion, which aims to address the lack
of basic resources in education such as competent teachers, academic
classrooms, and instructional materials and the national broadband
network amounting to P16.47 billion.
In addition, the agency approved
the P870-million Biņan-Sucat 230-kilovolt Transmission Line
Upgrading project and the P990-million Local Governance Support
Program-Local Economic Development.
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