| Strong Kick Off for the Change Meter Program in 2009 |
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“The strong kick off of the Change Meter Program this year increases the success rate of achieving a greatly reduced NRW.”
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“Collection efficiency and on-time payment bounced back this month from the previous month’s low turn-out due to the long Christmas holiday season.”
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The Change Meter Program started strong this year as 5,328 old meters were replaced with brand new ones. If the pace is maintained in the succeeding months, the 36,000 meter replacements targeted for the year is highly achievable and can even be surpassed, thus contributing to great reductions in non-revenue water.
In 2008, the more than 27,000 meter replacements resulted to an average increase of 4.55 cubic meters per connection per month. This is a big boost to the district’s revenue generation efforts as this could
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translate to millions of additional revenues that could be reverted back to the consumers through improvement and expansion programs.
In addition, even customers’ meters that are less than 5 years old but are found to be defective are also replaced. Defective meters are spotted through regular reports generated by the Electronic Data Processing Department. Unusually low consumptions would require inspection in the field. If found defective, these meters are either repaired or replaced.
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| Mainlines Longer at 1,323 Km |
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The length of transmission and distribution lines has reached 1,323 kilometers this month with the addition of turned-over pipelines from subdivisions within the Cabantian system. Additional pipelines totaled to 1.7 kilometers this month.
The additional pipelines paved the way for new service connections to be installed in the area, resulting to an increase in total active connections to 163,777 from 163,585 in December last year.
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The Mainline Extension Program aims to expand service coverage to unserved areas within the city. Pipelines in subdivisions are turned over to DCWD for operation and maintenance. The same are accepted after complying with standard requirements.
Mainline extensions consequently translate to bigger coverage areas and population served.
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| Collection Efficiency Increases to 127.75% |
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After a sharp fall in December 2008, collection efficiency this month bounced back to 127.75 percent, up 50.17 percent from the previous month’s record low of 85.07 percent. This was attributed to the flocking of customers at the collection centers during the early part of the month to pay their obligations after a long holiday in December in which the collection centers were closed.
On-time payment likewise rose to 99.5 percent this month from a very low 66.7 percent recorded last month.
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Collection efficiency is computed as the percentage of the current month’s collection over the previous month’s billing. This value usually registers more than 100 percent since arrears are included in the current month’s collection. On-time payment, on the other hand, measures ability of the customers to pay their obligations before the due date. The computation is the same as that of the collection efficiency, except for the exclusion of arrears this time.
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