Water users pay for non-existent sewerage service

BESIDES having to pay for the income taxes, huge salaries and even gifts of the two giant water concessionaires, customers of Maynilad Water Services and Manila Water Company also pay for sewerage treatment and sanitation facilities that are non-existent, a group denouncing alleged excesses by the water firms said on Thursday.

“To have clean, quality, affordable and uninterrupted of drinking water or water safe enough to be consumed by humans is a basic right of every Filipino household. But collecting fees in their monthly water bills for non-existent sewerage treatment and sanitation facilities is depriving the people of their basic human right to public health and safety,” said Rodolfo Javellana, president of the group Water for All Refund Movement (WARM).