THE City Government of Zamboanga will be forging on Friday, May 11, a partnership with national government agencies for a water monitoring project.

Engineer Rodrigo Sicat, City Planning and Development Coordinator, said the partnership between the City Government, National Water Resources Board, and the Department of Science and Technology–Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST–PCIEERD) is for the establishment of ground water monitoring wells.

The partnership will be marked by a presentation of the ground water management plan and the signing of the memorandum of agreement.

Under the project, four wells will be established in Calarian, the Sanitary Landfill, Putik, and Tugbungan.

Sicat said these are real-time ground monitoring stations that will feed information via cellular network.

Zamboanga City is the pilot city in the Philippines for the project, Sicat added. (Bong Garcia)