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Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Speak out: Moalboal and the gastro scare
By F. D. Cabaron
Poblacion West
Moalboal, Cebu
I remember Moalboal in the ‘60s as a sleepy town where people fetched water in the nearby towns of Alcantara and Ronda and town folks dug holes to relieve themselves of nature’s call.
I remember that Basdiot, even with its already famous Panagsama Beach Resort, had no running water and had only cottages with makeshift showers from water-filled tanks supplied by mini trucks and pedicabs.
Though water was abundantly supplied from the springs of Busay, this valued natural resource could not be brought to the farthest coastal barangays because of the lack of facilities and technology.
Today, a number of households in Moalboal have benefited from the water directly supplied to their homes by the Moalboal Water District.
The firm has successfully survived to fulfill the vision of the national government to preserve and conserve our water resources for the benefit of the greater majority.
Had this valuable water supply in Moalboal not been aptly managed and controlled, this could have gone to waste and made scarce from the next generation Moalboalanons.
The gastro scare?
I am a water consumer myself and I wonder how gastro victims have multiplied by the hundreds in a weeks time since the outbreak (kuno) was declared.
There must be something brewing either in the springs of Busay or in the town’s municipal hall.
I can smell something fishy in the manner local authorities magnified the issues against the Moalboal Water District, a quasi- government entity.
True statesmen and public servants should have listened and dissected the issues and problems with objectivity and not with outburst and partiality.
Why can’t the local officials work hand in hand with the Moalboal Water District in solving the problem “if indeed the” the gastro problem was for real?
(December 15, 2004 issue)
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