Laguna Lake Development Authority

Approach to Integrated Watershed

Management Program for Santa Rosa

• Serving 15 million people in the watershed

• 61 municipalities

• Fisheries and livelihood

• Water supply for metro Manila

• Tourism

• Greening and reforestation

• Flood control and river convergence

• Permitting and enforcement of waste

management from industrial sector; and

• Developing new policies for long term

sustainability of the watershed

Major activities of LLDA:

Santa Rosa sub

watershed

Activities in Santa Rosa:

• 1997: River Rehabilitation Program – Addresses

pollution loading from rivers

- Survey of Santa Rosa River conducted

- Save Silang Santa Rosa River (S3R2) Council

organized

• 1999: Board Resolution 114 passed (institutionalizing

River Rehabilitation Program)

- Creation of the Federation of River Basin Council –

partnering with NGOs

• 2000 - 2006: Major effort in capacity building for

fisherfolk, Environmental Army, River cleanups,

industrial source permitting

• 2007: BR 414 – Creation of 24 sub – WQMAs including

#20, Santa Rosa

Activities in Santa Rosa:

2008: LLDA partners with WORLD WIDE FUND FOR

NATURE PHILIPPINES (WWF)

- Scientific and technical studies to determine long

term sustainability of water supply for Santa Rosa

watershed

Partnership with WWF Launched

2008: First Water Summit

- Identification of stakeholders

- Creation of TWG

2009: Second Water Summit

- Identification of issues and concerns

- Action planning

2010: Third Water Summit

- Presentation of Action Plan

- Commitments of stakeholders

- Lessons learned from Typhoon Ondoy

2011: Development of Santa Rosa Integrated

Watershed Management Plan

The output is the Integrated Watershed

Management Framework

Productive watersheds, clean rivers, healthy lake

LGUs

NGAs

NGOs Water

Utilities

Business Sector

Designation of Sub-WQMA

Management strategies

Sustainable financing strategies

Review of Policies, Institutional

Arrangement and Capacities and

Issuance of New Policies

Development of sub-WQMA action

plan

Creation of Watershed

Management Council

Watershed Characterization and Assessment

Performance Monitoring

Integrated Watershed Management Framework

Productive watersheds, clean rivers, healthy lake

LGUs

NGAs

NGOs Water

Utilities

Business Sector

Breaking it down Objectives

Stakeholders

Designation of Sub-WQMA

Management strategies

Sustainable financing strategies

Review of Policies, Institutional

Arrangement and Capacities and

Issuance of New Policies

Development of sub-WQMA action

plan

Creation of Watershed

Management Council

Watershed Characterization and Assessment

Performance Monitoring

Integrated Watershed Management Framework

Previous

actions

Priority

Focus

2012 – Developing New

policies

• Land use policies: harmonize land use

policies of the LGUs within the Santa Rosa

Sub Watershed

“Critical as land uses are rapidly

changing from agricultural to

residential and commercial and

these will have major impacts on

water quality and supply unless we

act”

How to make the new policies

work?

To Build an Accountable and Effective

Governance Body for Managing Water

Resources in the Santa Rosa

Watershed

Sounds great, but how are we going to do this??

Chairman: SEC J.R. Nereus O. Acosta

Co-Chairmen Hon. Arlene B. Arcillas

Hon. Marlyn Alonte-Naguiat

Hon. Isidro L. Hemedes

Hon. Emilia Lourdes F. Poblete

Members

Water Utilities

•Laguna Waters

•Cabuyao Water District

•Silang Water District

Business Sector

•Ayala Westgrove Heights

•Santa Rosa Business Club

•Laguna Technopark, Inc.

Creation of SUBWQMA Board

NGOs and Academe

•Save Silang-Santa Rosa River Fnd.

(S3R2)

•Adventist University of the Phil.

(AUP)

TWG

•All ENROs of the 4 LGUs

•LLDA

•All Municipal and City Engineers

MOA Signing to Create the

Board

2014: SIGNING OF THE MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT AMONG THE

LLDA, CITIES OF SANTA ROSA, BINAN, CABUYAO AND THE

MUNICIPALITY OF SILANG FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF IWMP

IRR OF BOARD RESOLUTION 414 IS BEING FINALIZED BY THE

LAGUNA LAKE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

Thank you!

LLDA Community Development Division

Contact: Reena Buena email:

reenabuena@yahoo.com