Jolliville Holdings expands Mindoro water facility
Jolliville Holdings Corp. (JOH) is expanding its million water facility project in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro with its 1,500-cubic meter water reservoir to address the city's growing demand of water.
JOH Chairman Jolly Ting said the water reservoir is meant to augment its service facility in the bustling city, through Calapan Water, its subsidiary.
The reservoir is meant to address the ever increasing demand of water among its residential and commercial establishments of Calapan City, considered as the commercial hub of MIMAROPA.
Ting said Calapan Water is servicing 15,000 households and commercial establishment and he projects to have 28,000 consumers by 2018.
“This water reservoir which can hold 1.5 million liters of water will add water pressure and volume to household and commercial establishments in Calapan City.” said Ting during the Nov. 22 inaugural rites.
Ting explained that this new addition to the series of the water company’s infrastructure build-ups is part of the company’s 10-year development plan costing million.
“There’s still much to be desired to meet the rising demands for fresh water from a growing population in this city, including investors who expressed interests to do business in this booming city,” Mr. Ting said, stressing that “it needs more water sources to cope with the demands.”
In its timeline, the Calapan Water expected that in between years 2018 and 2028, consumers are expected to double from the present 15,000 households to 28,000 households located in 36 out of the city’s 62 barangays.
As consumers grow, demands for fresh water will also grow. “We won’t stop finding more sources of water and building more infrastructures, including reservoirs, as the present 36 barangays now with water connections will reach to cover the whole 62 barangays of Calapan City,” explained Roderick Carranceja, CW president.
The new infrastructure is funded from the company’s investment plan under its 10-year Development Initiative, which saw tapping of new water sources, reservoirs and pipelining for distribution of safe water from sources to its consumers, households and business establishments.
Calapan City Mayor Arnan C. Panaligan and the Sangguniang Panglunsod, chaired by Vice-Mayor Gil Ramirez, welcomed the new development as the city officials expressed their full support to efforts of Calapan Water to develop and improve its water quality and distribution system for the benefit of the city’s rising population and business stakeholders.
With the opening of the reservoir, it will greatly enhance the steady supply of safe drinking water to households, the city official said.
“Calapan is one of the fastest booming cities in the Mimaropa Region,” Panaligan said, adding that as “a booming city, it needs more infrastructures in support of our development.”
JOH is a diversified conglomerate with business interests in various industries that include real estate, power generation, water distribution, management, leisure and business process outsourcing. (BCM)