West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) recently held the formal inauguration of its newly expanded water laboratory, called WATERLab, located inside the La Mesa Compound in Quezon City. The event was led by Maynilad President and CEO Ramoncito S. Fernandez (4th from left). With him were (from left) Maynilad Chief Operating Officer Randolph T. Estrellado, Department of Health–Environmental and Occupational Health Center (DOH-MMCHD) Head Dr. Wency Blas, Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) Administrator Engr. Leonor C. Cleofas, DOH-MMCHD Chief Local Health Support Division Medical Officer IV Dr. Amelia Medina, MWSS Regulatory Office Chief Regulator Atty. Patrick Lester N. Ty, Department of Trade and Industry–Philippine Accreditation Bureau Laboratory Accreditation Division Chief Michelle Esteban, and Maynilad Quality, Sustainability & Resiliency Head Roel Espiritu. The Maynilad WATERLab tests the quality of water distributed to the company’s 9.9 million customers, as well as the quality of effluents released by its wastewater treatment facilities. It is equipped with state-of-the-art analytical instruments that allow Maynilad’s chemists to study compounds in water samples drawn from 1,155 sampling points throughout the West Zone.