Water district advises Cagayan de Oro consumers to prepare for supply disruption

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Cagayan De Oro City News

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The Cagayan de Oro Water District prepares to tap other sources of treated water due to a notice of disconnection it received from its primary supplier

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, to pay over P400 million for the water supply, which has accumulated since 2021 – a debt the water district refused to acknowledge. In the city’s second district, the COWD said the water supply in the villages of Camaman-an, Lapasan, and portions of Gusa, Cugman, and Macasandig would be affected. COBI, which supplies some 80,000 cubic meters of treated water to the COWD daily, has been pressuring the water district to pay a debt of more than P400 million, which mostly represents the accumulated price difference since COBI implemented an increase in its water rates in 2021.

She said her family has been paying the COWD on time because the last thing they wanted was a disconnection notice.

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