The Philippine Water Supply

and Sanitation Situation

13-15 June 2019

SMX Convention Center, SM Lanang Premier, J.P. Laurel Avenue, Davao City (Main Venue)
CAP Convention Center, Anda corner Rizal Streets, Davao City (Second Venue)
Outline
• WSS Situationer and Sector Targets
• WSS Sector Issues and Challenges
• Relevant Information on WSS
 Water Supply
Level I (unsafe) 12.3%
Level I (safe) 32.4%
12.4 MILLION
11.2% Level II

Level III 44.1%

5 of 10 people 7 of 10 people 8 of 10 people

in ARMM in Western Visayas in Bicol, Cagayan Valley,
Western Mindanao
 Sanitation
Open Defecation 4.23%

4.27 MILLION
Unimproved Sanitation 2.04%

Basic Sanitation 19.96%

18.32% 11.89% 10.27%
ARMM
Improved Sanitation
Region V
73.77%
Region VIII
 WSS Situationer
332 Waterless Municipalities

Less than 50% of households have piped

water into premises

74% of households are connected to onsite

or offsite treatment

4.27 million still defecate in the open

 WSS Sector Targets

Philippine Development Plan (2022)

Increase access to safe water supply to 96.16%
Increase access to improved sanitation to 97.46%

Sustainable Development Goals (2030)

Universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water
Universal access to adequate and equitable sanitation
Philippines’ Water Resources

• 2,400 mm of average rainfall

over 343,000 sq km
• 421 principal and 18 major river
basins
• 479 billion cubic meters can be
drawn
• Dependable water source 146
BCM (126 surface, 20
groundwater)
• 87 BCM water rights for
consumptive use
 Issues and Challenges
• Insufficient water sources in some areas,

• Population growth and economic growth,

• Quality of water resources is deteriorating as

affected by unmanaged wastewater,

• Lack of awareness of and concern

 Issues and Challenges
• There is no clear policy on promoting water
conservation practices,

• Lack of single body focused on water supply and

sanitation resulting into a fragmented sector,

• There is a lack of an apex body that oversees the

whole cycle of the country’s water resources,
 Issues and Challenges
• LGU and WSPs insufficient capacity and capability
to ensure adequate WSS services,

• Data and information on WSS are not properly

organized, monitored, and managed,

• Insufficient investment in WSS sector,

• Some WSPs are not operational and sustainable

An efficient, viable and sustainable water
supply & sanitation system requires:
• A thorough, well-thought planning process
• Reliable,engineering and construction stages
• Adequate investment and financing program
• Political autonomy and interference-free from social and political
pressures
• Water system to be viewed and managed as an “economic good”
• Sound O & M practices and procedures
• Welcomed private sector participation (BOT, JV, concession,
lease-contract, management service contracts)
• PRACTICAL, SOCIALIZED, REGULATED, WELL -
STRUCTURED WATER TARIFF
SUSTAINABLE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS
environmental
studies
SOURCE
groundwater, spring,
surface water
TRANSMISSION & TREATMENT &
operation mode
DISTRIBUTION LINES DISPOSAL
“fill & draw”, float
alignment (topo and geo) REQUIREMENTS
transmission
ROW
storage
staging of Q ECONOMICS AND
distribution
pumping requirement (s) FINANCIAL
foundations
flow variations EVALUATION
ROW??
DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM SOCIAL
injection points ACCEPTABILITY
Update/verification of
locations
demand projections,
demand requirements W-T-C and W-T-P
hydraulics
delivery pressures Surveys

Topo & alignment Hydrology &

Hydrogeology, Geological, geotechnical
 Some Practices in Water Supply
Development
• River basin approach – a single big source serving cluster of
municipalities along the way; island provinces usually have very
limited catchment area
• Bulk water supply – from a private company, joint venture,
• Management contract – with a reputable water company to run
the system,
• Performance contracting – for NRW reduction
• Water demand management – focusing on water-saving
devices and behavioral change
• Rainwater harvesting – capturing and storing rainwater
• Twinning – learning from successful water utilities
• Ring-fencing – separating the accounts of the LGU from the
water system
 RAIN WATER HARVESTING
❑ The collecting and storing of
rainwater for water supply,
landscape irrigation and other
uses.
❑ Rainwater is collected from
various hard surfaces such as
rooftops and/or other
manmade aboveground hard
surfaces (generally for
households)

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Rainwater – a Major Water Source?
• Philippines’ total land area - approximately
300,000 sq.km,
• Average annual rainfall of 1,000 mm,
• Total volume of available rainwater = 300,000
MCM annually ,
• 100 million Filipinos, 3,000 CM per capita year
or about 8 CM per capita per day
 What is Sanitation:

It is the hygienic means of promoting health

through prevention of human contact with the
hazards of wastes.
 SAFELY MANAGED
Improved facilities which are not shared with other
households and where excreta are safely disposed in
situ or transported and treated off-site
 BASIC SANITATION
Facilities which are not shared with other households
and is not safely managed
 LIMITED
Facilities shared between two or more households and
is safely managed
 UNIMPROVED
Use of pit latrines without a slab or platform, hanging
latrines or bucket latrines
 UNIMPROVED
Disposal of human feces in fields, forests, bushes, open
bodies of water, beaches and other open spaces or with
solid waste
Wastewater Management/Treatment:

It is a process used to
convert wastewater into
an effluent (outflowing of
water to a receiving body
of water) that can be
returned to the water
cycle with minimal impact
on the environment or
directly reused
Fecal Sludge Management
The collection, transport, and treatment of fecal
sludge from pit latrines, septic tanks or other on-site
sanitation systems
Septage Management
refers to the comprehensive programs
for managing septic tanks and the procedure for
desludging, transporting, treating and disposing of
septic tank contents
Sewerage System
is a network of
pipes, pumps and
force mains for
the collection of
wastewater, or
sewage, from a
community
 “Awareness is a key
ingredient in success
but without action, its
worthless”

THANK YOU AND

GOOD DAY!