| Daily Production Drops 1.67% |
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Change Meter Program
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Replacement of old meters this month came to a halt as brand new meters were unavailable. The meters currently in stock were reserved for new installations and meters that were found defective.
Customers’ meters that are five years old and above are considered old and found to under-register water consumption.
Since January, a total of 19,343 old meters have been replaced, 53.73 percent away from the year’s target of 36,000 replacements.
So far, over 60,000 meters are still due for replacement, some installed way back in the 70’s. The district has a lot to lose if it lets these meters remain in the field.
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The average daily production for the month registered a 1.67 percent drop to 216 thousand cubic meters from 220 thousand a month ago. This resulted from longer interruptions of pumping operation, coupled with shorter average operating time per well during the month.
Total production for the month reached 6.7 million cubic meters, higher than the total production of the previous month and the previous year. Meanwhile, four wells resumed operation this month after being idle for the past few months. These included Lumondao, Dumoy P.W. Nos. 9 and 13, and Tugbok P.W. No. 4, bringing the total number of operational wells to 50. |
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Only two wells were not used, namely, Dumoy P.W. No. 2 and Calinan P.W. No. 1.
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The ratio of non-revenue water to total production this month inched up 6.8 percent to 29.28 percent, a little over one percentage point away from the year’s target of 28 percent, but a lot better than the same period last year’s record of 33.05 percent.
In terms of volume, this month’s NRW increased 8.51 percent to 1.96 million cubic meters from 1.81 million last month. Compared, however, to July last year, NRW recorded a 10.53 percent drop from 2.2 million cubic meters.
Accounted water loss slid 32.88 percent to only 614 thousand cubic meters this July from 914 thousand in June. Consequently, unaccounted water loss registered a sizeable increase of 50.87 percent to 1.35 million cubic
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meters from last month’s 893 thousand. The slight drop in billed consumption despite higher production values fueled the NRW’s upsurge this month. Efforts towards the improvement of metering accuracies and detection of pilferages apparently need to be intensified.
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| Water Collection Hits Record High |
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Water collection this month went up 6 percent to PhP75.6 million, the highest monthly collection achieved so far in the district’s history. Average monthly collection since January this year amounted to PhP73 million, up from PhP70 million last year and PhP66 million in 2006. If this continues, total water
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collection for the year will reach PhP876 million, up 3.75 percent from the total water collection recorded in 2007.
Meanwhile, non-water collection reached PhP8.6 million this month, bringing the total collection to PhP84.3 million.
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