Maynilad builds P70 M water quality laboratory

MANILA, Philippines — West zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services Inc. is constructing a P70-million laboratory to ensure quality water supply in its serviced areas.

The Pangilinan-led company said a new building inside its La Mesa Compound in Quezon City would house an expanded central laboratory that would monitor and test the quality of water supply within its concession area.

The new facility will have additional capability to monitor more compounds that are now part of the new quality parameters set by the Department of Health’s updated Philippine National Standards for Drinking Water.

The central laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art analytical instruments that allow Maynilad’s chemists to study compounds in the water samples drawn from over 1,000 sampling points throughout the west zone.

“Ensuring good water quality is of paramount importance to Maynilad. We continuously invest in our infrastructure to ensure that the water we deliver to our over nine million customers is potable,” Maynilad president and CEO Ramoncito Fernandez said.

With the expanded facility, Maynilad said its central laboratory could sustain multiple accreditations for different services.

Maynilad obtained environmental laboratory accreditation from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in 2015 and was conferred with the ISO 17025:2005 by the Department of Trade and Industry-Philippine Accreditation Bureau.

It is also accredited by the DOH as a laboratory for drinking water analysis.

Maynilad’s capital expenditures for 2018 has been set at P9 billion.

Maynilad is the largest private water concessionaire in the country in terms of customer base. It serves the areas of Caloocan, Pasay, Parañaque, Las Piñas, Muntinlupa, Valenzuela, Navotas, Malabon, and certain portions of Manila, Quezon City, Makati and Cavite.

Maynilad is owned and managed by Maynilad Water Holdings Co. Inc. a joint venture between Metro Pacific Investments Corp., DMCI Holdings Inc., and Marubeni Corp.