Dumaguete City (CNN) — Dumaguete City residents will have enough water supply even during the seven-month drought brought about by El Niño, according to Esepratu Dicen, general manager of the Dumaguete City Water District (DCWD).
Dicen gave the Dumaguete City Council this assurance during its regular session, saying that the DCWD would be increase the number of water pumping stations.
DCWD has 17 production wells. But Dicen stressed the need to conserve the use of water and reminded all water concessionaires that the abundance of water in Dumaguete should be enjoyed by future generations.
Dicen added that as part of its conservation efforts, DCWD shut off operations in some of its production wells to give time to recover its supply.
“We are solely dependent on ground water supply, and pumping the whole day is not advisable and also we will have no time to monitor the salinity of the water,” he said.
