Philippines

The World Bank estimates that roughly 35 percent of Filipinos are without access to clean drinking water and 65 percent lack water for sanitation. The issues overwhelming the water sector include disparities in water supply coverage across regions, depletion of groundwater, and undercapitalized municipalities. Filipino municipalities lack sufficient management capacity and resources to make the dramatic improvements necessary to expand service coverage. By focusing on the elimination of these inefficiencies, the quality and quantity of water services to the country’s poor can be dramatically increased.

The Alliance to Save Energy, with funding from the U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership (US-AEP), a program of the U.S. Agency for International Development, has partnered with two water districts in Iloilo and Cebu to carry out a municipal water and energy efficiency program in the Philippines. The water districts in Cebu and Iloilo face severe water resource scarcity and disproportionately high electricity costs caused by water pumping in both cities. By improving the efficiency of the existing pumping systems within these districts, resources can be put to more productive use while municipal budgets can be better allocated through reduced pumping costs.

For more information on the Alliance Watergy program in the Philippines, please click here.