The water pump repair project that was supposed to solve the Kagman farmers’ perennial problem with water supply has yet to be completed.
A project of the Division of Agriculture, the water pump repair was allotted $20,000 for the purchase of supplies and materials, which already arrived 10 months ago.
The water pump, however, remains not operational.
According to Soil and Water Conservation District chairman Isidoro Cabrera, the project has been interrupted by many other activities held over the past several months.
And now that it’s the rainy season already, the completion of the water pump project is no longer considered urgent, he said.
But Cabrera believes that this is the best time to complete the project because the planting season starts this month.
The dry season, he added, comes in January.
The water pump can fill the 100,000-gallon water reservoir located west of Kagman farm and its repair is seen by farmers as a long-term solution to their irrigation concerns.
The Kagman farmers group and the Division of Agriculture came up with the idea of activating the old water reservoir after the U.S. Congress did not fund last year the Kagman Watershed Project which included the construction of a 70-million gallon water reservoir in Kagman.
