Water Treatment Plant Introduced With New Technology

DATEM Water Inc., a subsidiary of the country’s fastest-growing construction company Datem Inc., launched its first bulk water-filtration facility that sits on a 1,000- square-meter area at Metro Kalibo Water District’s (MKWD) Tinigaw Pumping Station in the municipality of Kalibo in Aklan 

Datem Water executives said that for the whole development, the company spent P100 million-plus, all internal funding.

Jan Joseph C. Sta. Barbara, Datem Water Inc. business development manager, said the Boracay market is already captured by two big players Manila Water through its unit Boracay Island Water Co. and Boracay Tubig.

He said competition in Aklan is better because there is the greater need for potable water and Kalibo is booming.

The facility began its initial operations in May this year.

Datem Water will filtrate surface water coming from Aklan Lake which will then be sold to MKWD and distributed to its service areas.

MKWD supplies five towns including Kalibo, Batan, Banga, New Washington and Balete whose total population is around 100,000.

The facility, with Datem Water’s 15-year contract with MKWD, will provide 5,000 cubic meters to 10,000 cubic meters of potable water every day, about 10 million liters, until the contract expires in 2030.

For this project, Datem Water tapped Mann+Hummel, a company based in Germany, with expertise in surface water clarification, industrial-water treatment and wastewater treatment.

Unlike the conventional water treatment services,  Mann+Hummel’s filtration depends less on chemicals and makes use of reverse oamosis, nano filtration and ultrafiltration.

During the inauguration, Aklan Gov. Florencio T. Miraflores expressed his gratitude for bringing the state-of-the-art water-filtration technology to the municipality. He said that with the wells drying up due to El Niño, Datem Water’s technology will augment MKWD’s water supply that will greatly benefit Aklanons.

Due to El Niño, deep well-dependent water distributors like MKWD are looking for alternative sources of water.

Lawyer Edmund R. Peralta, MKWD chairman, said that in coping with consumer demands for better water pressure, clearer water and wide coverage, there’s no way the company can provide them with adequate water using groundwater, which will sometimes deteriorate. Of the existing seven deep wells in the area, only five remain in operation.

Datem Inc. President Levy Espiritu said that out of the 455 water districts in the country, the company has 10 other contracts, the majority of which are in the Visayas and Mindanao and some in Luzon.

Source: Business Mirror

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