Philippines Commissions Putatan Water Treatment Plant

The Philippines has commissioned its first water treatment plant to draw water from Laguna Lake as an alternative source to Angat Dam in Barangay Putatan.

The Putatan Water Treatment Plant will draw water from Laguna Lake and produce 50 million litres of water per day (mld) by July and another 50mld by September this year.

The facility uses microfiltration and reverse osmosis technology to treat raw water from the lake and process drinking water to the city’s residents.

The water treatment plant is part of the PHP1.7bn ($36m) pipe-laying project of Maynilad that will provide potable water supplies to an initial 22,760 families, according to mb.com.ph.