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Ensuring water security for the emerging city of tomorrow • Metropolitan Cagayan de Oro master plan for sustainable urban infrastructure By MIKE BAÑOS Editor-at-Large
COWD execs rebuff Oro dad
A SUSTAINABLE water supply is one of the priorities in the Master Plan for the Sustainable Infrastructure Development of Metropolitan Cagayan de Oro now being formulated by the National Economic Development Authority Region 10. As defined by the College of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Colorado Denver, urban infrastructure refers to engineered systems such as water, energy, transport, sanitation, and information that make up a city. However, challenges’ resulting from increasing population growth foresees a need for sustainable infrastructure that is high performing, cost-effective, resource-efficient and environmentally-friendly. (UCD, 2015) In the construction and physical and organizational structures that enable cities to function, meeting the needs of the present generation without
• Say they have sent written explanation to the City Council a week ago OFFICIALS of the Cagayan de Oro Wate r Dist r i c t (COWD) on We d n e s d a y (March 3) said they have al- Dahino ready sent a letter to the City Council last week explaining the supposed liquidation of an annual P6-million fund set aside by the government-owned utility for the city government. This was COWD general manager Bienvenido Batar’s remark during a press conference that day as a reaction to an earlier statement by Councilor See EXECS, page 11
See WATER, page 11
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Oro dad to water firm: Submit list of projects “ASA na ang mga proyekto? Kay gipangita na sa mga tawo (Where are the projects because the people are looking for it).” Thus the demand made by Councilor Edna M. Dahino in her special report during the regular session Monday presided over by Vice Mayor Raineir Joaquin V. Uy. Last week, Dahino filed a resolution requesting the Cagayan de Oro Water District (COWD) to submit the list of projects funded by the P6 million annual fund set-up by its Board of Directors for
various water system projects or water services improvement projects of the City Government. According to Dahino, COWD may have been misled because as per latest newspaper issues, they have been responding incorrectly to the city’s request. The Power learned that the resolution was passed by the COWD in 2006 as a commitment to pay the city, in the form of various water projects amounting to P6 million per year. See PROJECTS, page 11
Iligan City: Best Performing City Population Office in Region X ILIGAN CITY -- the City Government of Iligan under the leadership of Mayor Celso G. Regencia recently received an award conferred by the National Economic Development Authority Commission on Population and Development as the “Best Performing City Population Office in Region FULL STORY ON PAGE 7
Dr. IRENE FLORO
Oro Chamber holds first meeting for 2019 STORY ON PAGE 6
Mayor Oscar Moreno (right) leads in the groundbreaking for the renovation of the historic City Amphitheater. The facelift, totaling P76 million, is funded by Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III and expected to take five years to construct, including the whole Plaza Divisoria, ... read more on /p2
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