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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 770 -
INITIATING A NATIONWIDE COMMUNAL WATER PUMP PROGRAM |
The Minister of Public Works, Transportation and
Communications
The Minister of the Budget
WHEREAS, surveys show that only one-third of the rural areas have access to artesian wells and the remaining two-thirds, estimated at about 20 million people, have no adequate water supply;
WHEREAS, there is immediate need for the implementation of a national program for construction/ rehabilitation of water supply to areas not covered by National, Provincial, or City water resource agencies;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby Order and Instruct:
1.
The Minister of Public Works, Transportation and
Communications, the Minister of Local Government and Community
Development, and the Minister of the Budget shall design and implement
a communal water pump system program with the objective of having a
reliable and adequate water source within 500 meters of each household
throughout the nation.
The Program shall consist of (a)
the rehabilitation of existing but unserviceable wells and pumps, and
(b) the construction of new wells and pumps, using the latest available
low-cost methods. The national government shall provide technological
assistance and necessary material, while local governments and
barangays shall provide labor.
2. The
Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Communication, through the
Task Force on Rural Water Supply, shall direct and manage the "Bagong
Lipunan Communal Water Pump Program."
3. Actual
construction shall be done by private contractors, by the Bureau of
Public Works, or by local residents under the supervision of the Task
Force on Rural Water Supply, whichever is found to be most economical.
4. The
projects contemplated herein shall not cost more than one thousand
pesos each, for materials including the pump. Labor shall be provided
or mobilized by local government units and barangays and shall
constitute the local counterpart in this program.
5. A total of
at least 10,000 pumps shall be completed and turned over to communities
by December 31, 1979.
6. The
Ministry of the Budget shall earmark and release to the Task Force on
Rural Water Supply, the maximum amount of ten million pesos
(P10,000,000) in initial implementation of this Program, chargeable to
the funds provided as aid to Local Government Units under P.D. No. 144.
The task Force shall, in addition, be allotted the sum of one million
pesos (P1,000,000) from the Special Activities Fund, for operating
expenses and supervision costs incidental to the Program.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.
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