Maynilad is on track to meet sewerage coverage target of 26%

West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) is on track to meet its sewerage coverage target of 26 percent by 2020 on the back of proper capital expenditure allocation.

Right now, the company is building additional Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) in Pasay, Parañaque, Valenzuela, Cavite City, and Tunasan and Cupang in Muntinupa. Once these projects are completed in 2020, Maynilad said it will be able to increase its sewerage coverage in the West Zone to 26 percent.

To recall, Maynilad is targeting to attain 100 percent sewerage coverage by the end of its concession period in 2037. Over the weekend, the company said that it had so far spent almost 114 billion in capex just to expand the sewerage coverage in the west zone.

For this year, Maynilad has allotted almost 11.7 billion for wastewater projects alone.

The total investment, according to the company, went into the construction of 15 new STPs, one Sewage and Septage Treatment Plant, and one Septage Treatment Plant, rehabilitation of existing wastewater facilities, acquisition of new vacuum trucks for septic tank cleaning, and installation of 27.5 kilometers of new sewer lines, among others.

“When new Maynilad management first took over the West concession in 2007, sewerage coverage was only at 6 percent, and there were only two operating STPs at the time,” said Maynilad’s Wastewater Management Head Antonio Garcia.