Shortly Before noon yesterday water service was again disrupted in our place. That is, Barangay Talandang in Tugbok district, Davao City.
And we are certain that the water service interruption was not only in our place but in the immediate environs. Good thing that with our experience last Thursday and Friday we filled every available vacant container we were able to assemble in our house.
Thus, when the outage happened again yesterday we already felt a little comfortable knowing that we have some liquid to use.
So we decided not to communicate with the Davao City Water District’s (DCWD’s) communications unit because we were certain that we could have again received the same answer. That is, its crew were still fielded to locate where the leakage or the problem is, and promises us of “update” later.
By the time we finished this piece and e-mailed the same to our editorial office, still not a drop of the precious liquid of life came out of our faucets.
Frankly, we have no idea whose system in the water supply service to consumers was problematic in yesterday’s interruption. Was it the DCWD’s, or that of its bulk water supplier? We were told that the water delivered in the households of our barangay emanates from the reservoirs in the nearby barangay Biao Joaquin that serves as depository of water coming from Apo Agua facilities in Tamugan.
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These days social media platforms have become the dirtiest battleground for politics. And the “soldiers” doing the combat for the “belligerent” politicians are the trolls and vloggers-for-hire. The legitimate combatants though are the partisans who are overly diehards for their acknowledged leaders,
Why is this shift in the battlefields and the armies used to carry on the political fight? Simple, the social media hacks do not have to fear of censorship as so far, there are no existing regulations to be strictly followed in the way how they carry the fight.
Moreover, the partisans, no matter how dirty the language and mode of presentation they use they can still hide their true identities. Hence, they are safe from the risks of doing their war.
Look at how social media is bastardized to muddle the investigation into the anomalous flood control projects. Even members of the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) formed solely to probe the massive corruption attendant to the projects, are now subjected to barrage of intrigues if only to destroy their credibility.
The end objective of course is to create doubts on whatever will be the result of the ICI probe. There is no question that those funding the efforts to taint the credibility of the ICI probers are certain that any result of a probe conducted by people wanting in credibility can also be subject to doubts.
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The Davao City Council last Tuesday, approved on second reading an Ordinance authorizing the clamping of illegally parked vehicles in certain stretches of designated roads. The Ordinance is introduced by Councilor Luna Acosta of the first district.
We are a bit surprised why it took so long for the Council to introduce such measure when residents of Davao City have long been observing of vehicles wantonly parked by owners along roadsides. The illegally parked vehicles are further causing traffic in the city’s downtown areas.
This measure had been adopted in Cebu City several decades ago and it has been found to be effective in instilling discipline among drivers. But of course any measure, if intended to benefit the public and for the orderliness of the city is “Better late than never.”
Our only wish is that on the determination of the roads where some stretches are to be declared no parking spaces it will not end up congesting other more vital streets in the city.
Also, it is the public’s hope that the appropriate stakeholders should be consulted when the Council decides which thoroughfares are to be declared clamping zones.
Anyhow, our congratulations to Councilor Luna for having thought of such ordinance to alleviate traffic in the city.
Truly, she is the daughter of her mother, also a top performer in the City Council during her stint.
