SUBICWATER INCOMPETENCE: Water Wasted Overnight!

SOME ESTIMATED 50,000 LITERS OF POTABLE WATER WASTED OVERNIGHT AS SUBICWATER IGNORED REPEATED REPORTS OF A BUSTED HIGH-PRESSURE WATER PIPE at Fontaine, Extension, East Tapinac, Olongapo City on Wednesday night.

Phone calls made around past 9:00PM to Subicwater’s leak hotline (047) 252-2963 went unanswered as well as calls to the company’s other listed numbers at its main office at the Subic Bay Freeport.

A phone call to (047) 222-6400 at its Filtration Plant in Bgy. Sta. Rita, Olongapo City was finally answered around 9:30PM by one John Carlo Barnacha who committed to relay the information to the concerned department.

According to Barnacha in subsequent follow-up phone calls, he has already also repeatedly alerted Subicwater’s “non-revenue crew” which was supposed to respond in such emergencies.

At 3:00 AM, still no Subicwater leak repair crew showed up to fix the busted pipe which must have been spewing water at an estimated rate of a gallon every three seconds, some 6,000 gallons or 24,000 liters for the first 5 hours alone… and counting.

Barnacha said in the final phone call follow-up at around 2:00AM that the “non-revenue crew” has stopped responding on the company’s radio and can no longer be reached even by mobile phone, thus, the “emergency” will have to wait until morning, some 5 to 6 hours or so more.

Meanwhile, precious water kept wasting away. (VVV) #