The hot and dry season is here and Bacolod Councilor Wilson Gamboa Jr. warned yesterday of another “no water supply situation” in Bacolod City, citing a repeat of issues about the non-payment of past dues and loans owed by the BACIWA-PrimeWater to its suppliers. Gamboa further disclosed that the non-revenue water (NRW) rate PrimeWater currently stands at 43 percent, meaning nearly half of the total treated water in the distribution system is lost before reaching consumers. The ideal, he said, as agreed under the joint venture agreement (JVA) between BACIWA and PrimeWater, should only be at 20 percent NRW. He stressed that as a result, the consumer-households are effectively paying for almost half of the entire water supply produced by PrimeWater that they did not actually consume at all. He also said that PrimeWater continuously siphons the collection of BACIWA without corresponding structural investments at all that will improve its services.