‘Yolanda’ resettlement sites get water through DPWH's 300 water tanks, pumps

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has installed more than 300 water tanks and pumps in resettlement sites for victims of Typhoon Yolanda.

DPWH Secretary Mark Villar said the Tacloban North Resettlement Site has just been equipped with 67 units of 5-cubic-meter and 70 units of 2-cubic-meter stainless water tanks, augmenting water supply in 17 resettlement sites in Barangay Sto. Niño in Tacloban City. 

A total of 181 jetmatic pumps were also installed in various resettlement areas, Villar added.

Aside from the water tanks and jetmatic pumps, the DPWH also provided four units of 10-wheel dump trucks, five units of six-wheel dump trucks and two units of water tank trucks.

Overall, a total of 4,468 cubic meters of water have been delivered to various resettlement sites, the secretary said.

The DPWH is expected to provide clean water supply to 2,841 families.

“We are very happy to be able to provide the water tanks on time. It is our duty to ensure that problems are addressed at the shortest possible time,” Villar said.

State weather forecasters had acknowledged that Yolanda was the strongest typhoon they've seen in the world in 2013, at a conservative maximum wind speed estimate of 235 kilometers per hour at landfall. —Mark Merueñas/ALG, GMA News