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CORDOVA
Student, PhD in Agricultural Engineering
Introduction
Water is essential for sustaining life and access to drinking water is a
fundamental need and a human right, vital for health and well-being. Water supply
system is an essential part of the over-all town planning scheme. One best
opportunity for avoiding consequential health risk lies in balanced planning for
urban expansion, with due consideration on water framework planning which is
vital to the interaction between urban-rural water supply and anticipating
development in the future.
In the case of the Philippines, the urban water supply was still inadequate.
Only about 70% of the urban population had access to safe water. In smaller
towns, the coverage was much lower than the national urban average and
increasing access to potable water facilities in small towns was a national priority.
As Bohol continues to grow and develop, it is imperative that a more
serious attention be focused on the long term sustainability of its water supply
sources. To improve the health and sanitation aspects of its people, providing
access to safe and abundant water is a necessary.
One of the project being proposed in the province of Bohol is the
development of water system in Inabanga.
Project Information
The project intends to produce a potable water for the needs of the
households in barangay Ilihan, Inabanga, Bohol and in the neighboring barangays.
It involves the following components: improvement of the source by improving the
spring box, construction of a collection tank, a transmission line, reservoir (50
cu.m.ferrocement tank) distribution line, pipe support in the transmission line,
pump and accessories, pump house, power line installation, chlorinator and
construction of 15 tap stand to be placed in the strategic location that will access to
the household.
Project Background
Barangay Ilihan, Mabuhay U-ug and Ubujan are among the poorest
barangays in Inabanga Municiplity.Based on the data taken from the latest Local
Poverty Reduction Action Program Survey, most of their households are living
below the income threshold and food threshold. The problem of this barangays are
lack of potable water for drinking and for daily needs. More time and effort is
presently experienced by the residents of this barangays in getting drinking water
because the spring which they get water is very far and elevated area from the
water source. Individual households have to walk 30 minutes to 1 hour through a
rugged terrain to fetch water using their containers. Fetching water also take a lot
of time for children who attends school and do errands for the family.
Aside from this, people from these barangays suffer from illness caused
from unsafe drinking water. Diseases such as gastro-enteritis, diarrhea and other
water borne diseases are prevalent in the area with the children most affected.
The project if implemented, will provide safe, potable water to the people and will
minimize, if not eradicate, the occurrence of these water-borne diseases.
Target Beneficiaries
About 350 (1400 people) households are the direct target beneficiaries of
the project. The construction and establishment of the water supply system is
expected to address the problem currently experienced by Barangay folks by
providing safe, clean and uncontaminated water to its constituents. The realization
of this project will definitely reduce the health cases that are mainly caused by
continuous use of unsafe water from unprotected sources.
For estimating the water demand for Domestic use the daily value of 150
lpcd (0.15 m3) was adopted as average unit consumption. The following water rate
schedules are used in the evaluation of the project in accordance with the
guidelines of LWUA on water pricing:
With the estimated number of people to be served, the computed monthly average
consumption per household is 18 m3 which is equivalent to P195.40.
Economic Analysis
The total cost of the proposed water supply system is estimated to be P
1,360,000 and will come from a loan with an annual interest rate of 9.2% payable
for 10 years. The economic life of the project considered for the analysis is 25 yrs.
Breakdown of Cost
O & M @ 25 year-operation
Replaceme
Life span Repair Cost nt Cost Total
350,00
Pipes 10 yrs 2 150,000 2 0 500,000
Reservo 200,00
ir 15 yrs 1 100,000 1 0 300,000
800,000 @ 25
Sub-total yrs
O&M 32,000
@12,000/mont
Salaries 2 personnel h 288,000
Total 320,000
Financial Data
Period of payment,yrs 10
Amount of Loan ₱1,360,000.00
Interest rate 9.2%
Total Amount to be paid at the
end of the period ₱1,485,120.00
Total Annual revenue ₱819,000.00
Annual O&M+ Wages ₱320,000.00
PW (B)
B /C=
I + PW (O∧M )
Social benefits
The project will benefit the 350 households to be served by the Level II
water system for them to have easy access to potable water, good , enjoy good
health and employment opportunities to the barangay people especially in the
construction stage and in maintaining the water system.