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DCWD employees plant trees.
Various stakeholders
COA XI employees plant 600 lagundi seedlings.
plant trees in watersheds
D
avao City Water District along with various youth sector, government offices and local government unit conducted separate tree planting activities in summer 2013 which paved for the planting of 1,095 malibago and lagundi seedlings and bamboo clumps in different watershed areas in the city. DCWD conducted the two-part Employees Tree Planting last April 30 and June 21 at the Malagos watershed reservation in time for the Earth Month and Environment Month celebrations in April and June, respectively. Spearheading the activity was the Environment and Watershed Protection Division which also sought assistance from the local government unit of Brgy. Baguio Proper and the Association of Community Concerned on Watershed (ACWA-PO), DCWD’s partner people’s organization in Malagos. ACWA-PO also pledged to do maintenance activities to ensure growth of the planted seedlings and clumps. The employees tree planting is an annual activity that allows DCWD employees to appreciate the very core of their operations since the watersheds replenish the groundwater where majority of Davao City’s water come from. The activity also gives the employees the opportunity to contribute to DCWD’s efforts to save and rehabilitate these watersheds. Then, last May 7 during the 114th anniversary of the Commission on Audit (COA) from May 2 to 8, approximately 200 COA Region XI employees joined the tree planting activity also in the Malagos watershed reservation. COA XI has been very supportive in DCWD’s endeavour in environmental protection. In fact, also during the COA anniversary last year, the same
activity was conducted still in partnership with DCWD. In addition, the COA Region XI Multi-Purpose Cooperative is one of the adopters of DCWD’s Adopt-a-Site Project which is a multi-sectoral approach in protecting and rehabilitating the watersheds of Davao City. Lastly, months later, DCWD also conducted separate tree planting activities on August 3 with the Philippine Society of Mechanical Engineers (PSME) and the Watershed Management Youth Council (WMYC) and on July 29 with WMYC, the winners of the Tugtugan at Rampahan sa Kalikasan 2013 and the youth of Sitio Panigan for the Tamugan and Davao Riverside Rehabilitation program which is a joint project of DCWD and partners PSME, WMYC, University of Southeastern Philippines, Brgy. Tamugan Council, Lower Tamugan High School and Watershed and Environment Protection Coalition of Davao. The program stipulates that these partners agree to use their collaborated resources and manpower to help conserve and protect the environment by planting and conducting maintenance activities in identified riverside sites. DCWD, with its mandate to provide quality and affordable water to the people of Davao City, places on top of its priorities the protection of the city’s main water sources. That is why DCWD has been instigating projects that promote environmental protection while partnering with the youth, women, business and labor sectors, non-government organizations, government agencies, among others. (Jovana T. Duhaylungsod) s
The local government unit of Brgy. Baguio Proper and DCWD’s partner people’s organization in Malagos and the Association of Community Concerned on Watershed plant trees and clean up Cogan Creek.
DCWD employees clean up and plant tree seedlings in Cogan Creek.
May-August 2013
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