Christian Batallones, general manager of Manila Water Philippine Ventures, told Garcia that CMWDI was losing around 2 to 3 million liters of water per day from the leaking pipe that started earlier. CMWDI is a joint venture investment firm between the Cebu Provincial Government and Manila Water Philippine Ventures, supplying 35 million liters of water per day to MCWD consumers. The water is extracted from the Luyang River in the town of Carmen and treated at the CMWDI facility in that town before running through a 34.8-kilometer pipeline stretching from Carmen, northern Cebu to Mandaue City. Batallones said the damage on its pipe will be repaired through welding patches in the 700-millimeter transmission pipelines. Garcia, however, said a 12-hour water service interruption would be a burden to the indirect consumers of CMWDI, especially the residential customers and business establishments.