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Manila Water says hospitals top priority for supply amid shortage

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Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News

<p>MANILA - Manila Water on Tuesday said it would give priority to providing water supply to hospitals, especially those in areas affected by the current water shortage. </p><p>Manila Water chief operating officer Geodino Carpio said Health Secretary Francisco Duque personally went to his office on Tuesday morning. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Carpio shows how the allocated water is not enough for the demand of their customers. <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABSCBNNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/cPSJwqHk3o">pic.twitter.com/cPSJwqHk3o</a></p>— Kristine Sabillo (@kristinesabillo) <a href="https://twitter.com/kristinesabillo/status/1105341846140735490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2019</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>“Secretary Duque came to my office. He wanted assurance that his hospitals won’t run out of water,” Carpio said. “My response to him was our top priority are hospitals.”</p><p>The Manila Water official said tankers were already sent to the Rizal Medical Center to provide supply.</p><p>They are also studying the hospital’s monthly and daily consumption to ensure that the demand for water is met.</p><p>Water supply has been short in eastern Metro Manila amid the declining water level at the La Mesa dam because of the lack of rain and rising demand. </p>

<p>MANILA - Manila Water on Tuesday said it would give priority to providing water supply to hospitals, especially those in areas affected by the current water shortage. </p>

MANILA - Manila Water on Tuesday said it would give priority to providing water supply to hospitals, especially those in areas affected by the current water shortage.

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Manila Water says hospitals top priority for supply amid shortage

Kristine Sabillo,

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Published Mar 12, 2019 03:03 PM PHT

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Updated Mar 12, 2019 03:37 PM PHT

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