Vulnerability of Luzon’s Water Supply revealed after Damage to main Water Line took 2 Days to Repair

Vulnerability of Luzon’s Water Supply revealed after Damage to a main Water Line took two Days to Repair and Restore

So last Friday Evening, June 6, 2025, some Id*t “Third Party Contractor” that was involved in the construction of the New Pritil Market in Tondo, Manila hit a Main Water Line of the Maynilad Water Services, Incorporated.

This initially caused low Water Pressure in many Areas like Pasay, Las Pinas, Makati, Paranaque and Cavite. However, Maynilad itself didn’t start work on fixing that Line until the Afternoon of the next Day, at 2:00 pm on Saturday, June 7, 2025.

Their Initial Schedule was to finish the work 18 hours later on Sunday, June 8, 2025 at 10:00 am. But then because of the heavy Rains, they had to delay the Work Completion Schedule by another 12 hours, to 10:00 pm of the same Day.

You can read about how it all started here on Maynilad’s official Facebook Page: https://web.facebook.com/MayniladWater/videos/1307863154435781

MY COMMENTS:
First of all, what sort of idi*t Engineers supervised and monitored that Digging that ended up with them hitting a Main Line? That should’ve been Part of their Work, to specifically keep from damaging that Line.

Second, why did it take Maynilad so long to start fixing the Problem, and to fix the Problem itself? Even if Rain was involved that further delayed their Work, does it mean that they have no Contingencies in Place to work through that in the first Place?

Third, how come is it that our Water Supply is so vulnerable that damaging it at a single Point would deny Water to such large Areas of Metro Manila and Cavite? So all any Enemy of our Country has to do is get hold of where that Water Line runs thru, and then destroy Porting of it with Bombs and Missiles, and that’s it, no Water for so many Filipinos for a long time?

Remember that Tondo is at least 37 km from Cavite, and yet a damaged Water Line there denied Water to it and to so many Areas. And why are there no Redundancies such that the Water Supply is so dependent on only one Line?

I am posting this just to specifically remind all of those other Id*ots who keep insisting that Filipino Engineers are “so good” that we should be making sophisticated Weapons ourselves. Really? We can’t even get the digging and repair of our Water Lines right, and we are supposed to make any Weapons we want already?

I am an Engineering Graduate myself, so my Intention is not to belittle our Engineers. But at the same time, we should know our Limitations and adjust our Priorities. Get everything done right with our Public Engineering Services first, before we think of “preparing for War”.

This Mentality reminds of Indians who just boast and think nothing else except War. So many Horror Stories about Poverty in India on Social Media, and yet instead of improving the everyday Lives of their People, they spend tens of Billions of Dollars for their Military instead.

I have nothing Personal against India, but I do hope that they do Wake Up and set their Priorities right instead soon, just like the Philippines. No to War, Yes to Economic Progress and Development.

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