The Boracay Island Water Company, a unit of the Manila Water Company, is planning to spend PhP 4.28 billion to improve water supply and sanitation services in the region by 2034. The amount will be spent on several water supply and sewage management works. These include development of a 15 million litre per day (mld) raw water facility, a 5 mld sewage treatment plant (STP) at Barangay Yapak, rehabilitating the Balabag STP and upgrading the Manocmanoc STP’s treatment capacity to 8.5 mld. While work on the Manocmanoc STP is expected to be completed by 2018, the Yapak plant will be commissioned in 2019. The utility also plans to lay sewage pipelines spanning 11 km and adding about 2,680 sewerage connections to its network by 2018. In addition, communal septic tanks and desludging services will be provided in areas that cannot easily be connected to sewerage networks.
