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Wednesday, August 10, 2005 (Philippines)

Talks resume on idle water wells

After a long legal battle, the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) and Compostela Mayor Antonio Dangoy are talking again.

This could result in additional water to parched Metro Cebu. But if ever MCWD is allowed to operate its pumping stations in Compostela town in northern Cebu, the water district will need P70 million to rehabilitate facilities there.

MCWD board chairman Juan Saul Montecillo revealed that the water district has had several talks with Mayor Dangoy starting early this year regarding the Compostela well field, which in 1992 had an estimated yield of 10,000 cubic meters a day.
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