Safe water project to benefit 350k Filipinos

THE United States-funded Safe Water Project (SWP), to be implemented by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), is expected to give access to safe drinking water and sanitation services to some 350,000 individuals in Palawan, Negros Occidental and Sarangani.

In a statement, the DENR said that the project cost is P922 million, equivalent to a grant of $18 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAid). The Philippine government shoulders a fund equivalent to not less than one-third (P307 million) of the USAid grant.