MIWD, MIB, MIW join fight vs COVID-19

Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) and its joint venture partners in Metro Iloilo Bulk Water Supply Corp (MIB) and Metro Iloilo Water (MIW) donated relief goods, equipment for medical frontliners, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing kits to the city and province of Iloilo.

According to Amaryllis Josephine C. Castro, MIWD finance department manager and OIC administrative department head, the donations were their contributions to help stop the spread of the infection in Iloilo City and province.

On Wednesday morning, the group donated 143 boxes of surgical face masks to the Iloilo provincial government worth P200,000 for use of COVID-19 frontliners.

The group also turned over P517,000 worth of COVID-19 test kits to the city government.

Apart from the test kits, MIWD-MIB-MIW also donated P200,000 worth of grocery packs which included 4,000 canned goods, 200 3-in-1 coffee packs, 4,000 noodle packs, 800 milk and choco powder sachets, 1,600 laundry bar soaps, and 800 bath soap bars.

MIB and MIW are the joint venture corporations formed by MIWD, a government-owned and -controlled corporation, and Metro Pacific Water Investments Corp, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Manuel V. Pangilinan-led Metro Pacific Investments Corp.

MIB operates the supply side of water services in Metro Iloilo while MIW runs the distribution and sewerage services.