Mayor Pizarro allots P16.4 million for water system rehabilitation

PILAR, Bataan – Mayor Alice D. Pizarro has allocated P 16.4 million for the rehabilitation of the water system of four clustered villages of the town under the bottom-up budgeting program of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).

Mayor Pizarro identified the four barangays namely  Del Rosario, Ala-Uli, Nagwaling and Liyang, all of which are reportedly fast growing communities with the rapid commercialization of the locality.

She stressed the renovation of the water  sources and distribution system would provide  healthy and sufficient  potable waters  to estimated 3,000 households  and supply business enterprises mostly restaurants and other multi-purpose trading  and  service establishments  operating along the stretches of Governor Linao National Road  and Roman Superhighway.

Mayor Pizarro, a tourism graduate of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, explained the upgrading of the water system is expected to stimulate the construction of numerous tourist facilities, souvenir shops, travellers’ lodging houses and other amenities for the guests visiting the historic peninsula.

She predicted the improvement of the water systems will contribute to the economic growth of the four villages and the adjacent areas as former Senate President Manuel Villar is reportedly looking for viable site for housing project and a hotel in Pilar town.

The geographical location of the   town with the Dambana ng Kagitingan enshrined at the historic Mount Samat in the upland village of Liyang, Mayor Pizarro said Pilar town undoubtedly becomes the centerpiece of tourism industry in Bataan.

The Department of Tourism (DOT) has registered thousands of employees and students from Central Luzon and Metro Manila have regularly stayed in the beach resorts of Bagac and Morong towns during their companies and schools out of town seminar-workshops and other activities.

Visitors have to pass the historic town of Pilar going to the world-class beach resorts of Bagac and Morong towns.