UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF DRINKING WATER SAFETY

Re-DEFINING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY & PUBLIC HEALTH AWARENESS

METROPOLITAN CEBU WATER DISTRICT

What is water?

An ubiquitous chemical substance that is vital to all forms of life on earth Major physical & chemical properties: Tasteless, odorless, colorless liquid at STP Known as the universal solvent Only clean, fresh drinking water is essential for human consumption

Water is Life!

PHILIPPINE NATIONAL STANDARDS for DRINKING WATER 2007 ( Revised Edition )

Objective
To protect public health, safety and welfare by ensuring quality standards of drinking water.

SCOPE of COVERAGE

Waterworks officials, developers and operators of water supply system both government and private entities Water refilling stations, water vending machines, ice manufacturers All establishments and institutions that supply or serve drinking water; Drinking water laboratories, health and sanitation authorities; other concerned institutions

Regulatory Requirements

Physical / Chemical Radiological Microbiological

Know Thy Enemy ( Water-Related Diseases)

Physical-Chemical

Arsenic poisoning

Mercury poisoning

Pesticides poisoning

MICROBIOLOGICAL

Water-washed Diseases

related to poor hygiene habits and sanitation, lack of adequate water for washing and bathing,usually affect the eyes and skin

Water-based Disease

pathogen spends an essential part of its life in water and is dependent upon aquatic organism for the completion of its life cycle. Ex. schistosomiasis

Water-vectored Disease

Are transmitted by insects that breed in the water or bite near water

Waterborne Disease

Are those transmitted through the ingestion of contaminated water Can enter the body via the fecal-oral route from human to human or animal to human

NEMATODES

Water Contamination
The Vicious Cycle

Hydrologic Cycle

FIRE
KAINGIN SYSTEM

Wadding through a sea of plastic waste in the Philippines

Contamination in Piped Water

Cross-connections

METROPOLITAN CEBU WATER DISTRICT

WATER QUALITY CONTROL DIVISION

WQCD is responsible in maintaining safe and potable drinking water served by MCWD to its concessionaires

MCWD Water Quality Treatment Activity for Groundwater

Automatic Chlorine Gas Feeder

MCWD Water Quality Treatment Activity for Surface Water

Monitoring the Distribution System & Consumers Tap

Indicator Organism

Total Coliform The most numerous organism in the intestinal tract of warm-blooded animals Originates from the same source with enteric pathogens

Fecal coliform The indicator organism for fecal contamination Indicator organism Escherichia coli ( E.coli

Water Quality Control Division

..taking our social responsibility to heart.

MCWD Water Safety Plan

A World Health Organization Project

Multiple Barrier Principle

The failure of one barrier may be compensated by effective operation of the remaining barriers An approach to ensuring the safety of drinking water that encompasses all steps in supply from source to consumer Prevention of contamination from the catchment to the consumer.

Once an aquifer has been polluted, it is very difficult to bring it back to its original purity; the pollutants which contaminated it are not only present in the water but are attached to and adsorbed on the rocks and minerals in the substratum.