19 December 2006
LEGAZPI CITY—CLEAN WATER.
This could be the freshest gift Albay could get as the Spanish government donated a P26 million water purifying machine to the province that was hardest hit by Supertyphoon Reming.
The machine could produce 3,000 liters of purified water per hour and was set up in Guinobatan town.
It was brought by a Hercules cargo plane at the Legazpi City Airport.
Ma. Eugenia Martin-Sanz Martinez, head of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation’s (Saic) relief department, led a nine-man Spanish team of relief and medical workers helping victims of Re-ming in the province cope with diseases and lack of potable water.
Martinez said her group might build a new hospital in Ligao City in place of the district hospital in the area which was destroyed by Reming.
Saic has already poured in some P68 million in aid to Albay.
Albay Gov. Fernando Gonzales, a Spanish mestizo, expressed gratitude to Saic on behalf of the province.
“The Spanish government’s sincere show of concern ... through its spontaneous response ... is a strong manifestation of a deep-rooted brotherhood between the Spaniards and the Filipinos,” said the governor. Ephraim Aguilar, Inquirer Southern Luzon
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