COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO SAVE IPO WATERSHED

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Central Luzon forms a strategic alliance with the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) and the Local Government Units (LGUs) of Norzagaray and San Jose Del Monte in Bulacan to address timber poaching, squatting, kaingin-making and forest fire inside the 6,600-hectare Ipo Watershed. Established under Presidential Proclamation 391 of 1968, the Ipo watershed supplies domestic water to more than 11 million people of Metro Manila. The Ipo dam has a storage capacity of 7.5 million cubic meters of fresh water and lies about 7.5 kilometers downstream of Angat dam.