34C, maynilad, condo water drama

April 16, 2025

It's that time of the year... Ang iniiiitttt na ng 34 C (feels like 37 C)!!! The heat at 6AM wakes us up. Noon time is somehow bearable because of the black-out blinds, but we have to turn on the A/C at 3PM already or our tech will be affected (esp. the laptop and electric wheelchair!) or worse, we suffer heat stroke.

Maynilad's annual "repairs and maintenance" around Holy Week doesn't help since they provide our condo's water supply. Speaking of which - our condo admin shut off water for many days citing Maynilad repairs from April 6-17. They announced a water interruption schedule on the 8th (as they should though very late) to allow the community cistern to get full, but they neither followed their stated hours nor gave any more updates or explanations interim - it was awful since the areas around us had steady supply already by the 11th/12th albeit low pressure. Whatever arrangements they made to keep adequate supply were lacking - and keeping residents in the dark made it worse.

Drama: A resident called the police on the admin the other day (the 14th) - they had it out at office that morning, "Turn the water on! You are lying!" The water supply for that resident's cluster was turned on that afternoon and has not been shut off since.

We, at the other clusters, got our water supply turned on yesterday morning (the 15th).

N.B. We have 6 clusters in our community. Cluster #1 (the oldest) has never been affected by any water interruption EVER; story is their tank is huge + they are serviced by NAWASA.