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    The Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) is a government corporation mandated to oversee water utilities outside of Manila. It establishes standards, provides technical assistance and training, and acts as a specialized lending institution for water utilities. The LWUA works with water districts, which were established by law, to improve water provision across the country. It determines financially viable water rates and tariffs. The National Water Resources Board regulates water utilities and coordinates water resource management.

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    The Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) is a government corporation mandated to oversee water utilities outside of Manila. It establishes standards, provides technical assistance and training, and acts as a specialized lending institution for water utilities. The LWUA works with water districts, which were established by law, to improve water provision across the country. It determines financially viable water rates and tariffs. The National Water Resources Board regulates water utilities and coordinates water resource management.

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    The Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) is a government corporation mandated to oversee water utilities outside of Manila. It establishes standards, provides technical assistance and training, and acts as a specialized lending institution for water utilities. The LWUA works with water districts, which were established by law, to improve water provision across the country. It determines financially viable water rates and tariffs. The National Water Resources Board regulates water utilities and coordinates water resource management.

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    The Local Water Utilities Administration, more commonly referred to as LWUA, is a

    government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) with a specialized lending function


    mandated by law to promote and oversee the development of water supply systems in
    provincial cities and municipalities outside of Metropolitan Manila.

    Sec. 49. Purposes. - The purposes for which the Administration is created are: (1) to
    establish minimum standards and regulations in order to assure acceptable standards of
    construction materials and supplies, maintenance, operation, personnel, training, accounting
    and fiscal practices for local water utilities; (2) to furnish technical assistance and personnel
    training programs for local water utilities; (3) to monitor and evaluate local water
    standards; (4) to effect system integration, joint investment and operations district
    annexation and deannexation whenever economically warranted; and (5) to provide a
    specialized lending institution with peculiar expertise in the financing of local water utilities.

    Sec. 62. Regulations. - Administration shall have the power and duty to establish standards for local
    water utilities, and adopt rules and regulations for the enforcement thereof. The Administration shall
    vigorously consult and coordinate its actions with all governmental agencies active in the areas of
    public works and all other concerned agencies in the promulgation of these standards. Said standards
    and regulations shall include the following:

    (a) Water Quality. Minimum drinking water standards including a uniform testing and reporting
    system. Said Standards shall include bacteriological, chemical and physical parameters;

    (b) Design and Construction. Minimum criterial for the design and construction of new or additional
    facilities for water supply, treatment, transmission and distribution, and for wastewater collection,
    treatment and disposal;

    (c) Equipment, Materials and Supplies. Standards for the optimum selection and effective utilization of
    equipment, materials and supplies by local water and sewer utilities;

    (d) Operations and Maintenance. Standardized procedures for operating and maintaining equipment
    and facilities;

    (e) Personnel. The training of personnel who operate or manage local water utilities;

    (f) Organization. Organizational and institutional criteria to assure independent operation and funding
    of local water utilities;

    (g) Accounting. A uniform accounting system with uniform chart of accounts. Said standards and
    regulations also shall include stipulated levels of internal reporting to local water utility management.

    LWUA was created through Presidential Decree No. 198, also known as The Provincial
    Water Utilities Act of 1973, which was signed into law on May 25, 1973.

    The law that created LWUA in the national level also provided for the establishment of
    Water Districts in provincial cities and municipalities. Thus would be put into motion a
    development partnership called the LWUA-Water District Concept that would revolutionize
    water supply provision in the countryside.
    LWUA is the only lending institution whether in the public or private sector with
    the financial, technical and institutional development competence to enable a water
    districts water supply project to generate return-on-investments.

    LWUA since 1973 has been financing water supply projects through funds secured
    from national government subscriptions, bilateral and multilateral fund sources, and
    from internally-generated funds and second generation funds.

    The LWUA know-how also includes the determination and implementation of socially
    responsive and financially viable water rates, and tariff review to determine its
    adequacy to meet WD expansion needs.

    NWRB
    Sec. 5. Water Quality Management Area. - The Department, in coordination with
    National Water Resources Board (NWRB), shall designate certain areas as water
    quality management areas using appropriate physiographic units such as
    watershed, river basins or water resources regions. Said management areas shall
    have similar hydrological, hydrogeological, meteorological or geographic
    conditions which affect the physiochemical, biological and bacteriological
    reactions and diffusions of pollutants in the water bodies, or otherwise share
    common interest or face similar development programs, prospects or problems.

    Said management area shall be governed by a governing board composed of


    representatives of mayors and governors of member local government units
    (LGUs), and representatives of relevant national government agencies, duly
    registered non-governmental organization, water utility sector, and business
    sector. The Department representative shall chair the governing board. In the case
    of the LGUs with memberships on more than one (1) management board, the LGU
    shall designate only one (1) single representative for all the management areas
    wherein is a member.

    The NWRB's functions and responsibilities are three-fold.


    Formulation and coordination of policies, programs and standards relating to the Philippine Water
    Sector;
    Management and regulation all water-related activities; and
    2) Rules and regulation for the exploitation and optimum utilization of water resources,
    including the imposition on water appropriators of such fees or charges as may be
    deemed necessary by the Council for water resources development;
    d. Review and approve water resources development plans and programs of any agency
    within the context of the overall naational plans and program;
    e. Undertake river basin survey, inventory and appraisal of water and related resources
    and develop comprehensive basinwide plans of storage and control to maximize the
    conservation and multi-purpose use of water in the basin;
    f. Undertake hydrologic surveys and establish, operate and maintain observation station
    networks and a centralized water resources data center necessary for the scientific
    survey and appraisal of surface and ground water potentials of the country; and
    g. Conduct and/or promote special studies and researches with other government or
    private agencies on all related aspects of water resources development such as
    weather modification, environmental quality, desalination and the like.

    Regulation and monitoring of water utilities.

    SECTION 1. The Water Resources Committee under Article XI, Chapter I, Part X of the
    Integrated Reorganization Plan shall be renamed National Water Resources Council,
    hereinafter called the Council, and attached to the Department of Public Works,
    Transportation and Communication (DPWTC).

    SECTION 2. The Council shall have the following functions, duties and powers:

    A. Regulatory and Executory


    a. Coordinate and integrate, on a sound anad logical basis, water resources development
    activities of the country within the context of national plans anad policies for social
    and economic development;
    b. Determine, adjudicate, and grant water rights amending, for this purpose, Act No.
    2152, and other laws relating to the appropriation and utilization of surface and
    ground water;
    c. Formulate and promulgate:
    1) General criteria, methods, and standards for basic data collection, project
    investigation, formulation, planning and design, and feasibility evalution; and
    SECTION 1. The Water Resources Committee under Article XI, Chapter I, Part X of the
    Integrated Reorganization Plan shall be renamed National Water Resources Council,
    hereinafter called the Council, and attached to the Department of Public Works,
    Transportation and Communication (DPWTC).

    SECTION 2. The Council shall have the following functions, duties and powers:

    A. Regulatory and Executory

    a. Coordinate and integrate, on a sound anad logical basis, water resources development
    activities of the country within the context of national plans anad policies for social
    and economic development;
    b. Determine, adjudicate, and grant water rights amending, for this purpose, Act No.
    2152, and other laws relating to the appropriation and utilization of surface and
    ground water;
    c. Formulate and promulgate:
    1) General criteria, methods, and standards for basic data collection, project
    investigation, formulation, planning and design, and feasibility evalution; and

    SECTION 3. The Council shall be composed of the following:

    Secretary, Department of Public Works, Transportation Chairman


    and Communications

    Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Natural Member


    Resources, or his Undersecretary

    Director General, National Economic & Development Member


    Authority, or his Deputy

    Administrator, National Irrigation Administration Member

    General Manager, National Power Corporation Member

    Director, Bureau of Public Works Member

    Provided, that the National Economic and Development Authority, in the exercise of its
    sound discretion, may increase or decrease the membership of the Council.

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