Maynilad and Manila Water are poised to raise water rates this month despite their continued failure to provide wastewater treatment facilities in violation of their contract as utility providers.

Buhay party-list Rep. Joselito Atienza, a former Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, disclosed on Monday that Maynilad and Manila water were fined P200,000 a day during his term for their failure to establish the required waste water treatment facilities. Their fines from May 2009 to January this year have reached P414.6 million, he said.

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