BF Homes households in Parañaque City now have a reason to rejoice as Maynilad started to deliver potable water to their faucets after nearly 25 years of

irregular water service.

Maynilad has started to connect more than 300 out of over 10,000 households in BF Homes, said to be the largest subdivision in Asia.

This developed following the completion of several pipe-laying projects begun in January last year upon the request of homeowners in seven out of the 25

enclaves of the subdivision.

These areas include Tirona, ACRA BF Central, Whitegold, TEHA (Teodoro Evangelista Homeowners Association), Agelor and VOB (Vinzon, Olandriz and

Benitez Sts.)

The seven enclaves now receive surface water supply at an average pressure of five pounds per square inch (psi) during peak hours (4 a.m. to 12 noon) and 15 psi

from 12 midnight to 4 a.m. which could easily fill the overhead water tanks of the connected customers.

City Mayor Florencio Bernabe, Jr. said Maynilad continues to lay pipes in various portions of BF Homes-Parañaque.

The mayor said the series of pipe-laying works marks a major development in the West Zone concessionaire’s effort to provide BF Homes residents with safe,

reliable, and affordable water.

In the past, residents of this subdivision got their water supply from several deep wells operated by the Philippine Waterworks and Construction Corporation

(PWCC).

For the past two decades, PWCC failed to provide village residents with adequate water supply.

The quality of water also steadily worsened due to the deterioration of the deep wells and the depletion of groundwater supply.

Violeta Dizon, a resident of the Tirona enclave, said she remembered eight years ago when the PWCC still supplied water to them through deep wells. She said

brownish water used to come out of their faucets.

Because of poor water quality, BF Homes residents relied solely on costly water deliveries for their daily needs.

“Yung mga damit at tiles sa bathroom at kitchen nangingitim but at least now I no longer encounter those problems with the services of Maynilad,” Dizon said.

Dizon said during those days, they would spend around P3,200 a month for water deliveries they used to buy from water haulers and about P300 a week for

mineral water.

With the water services coming from Maynilad, Dizon said they can now save about P2,000 a month both for drinking and general use of water and around

P1,000 on electricity since they no longer use their deep well.