BACOLOD CITY, May 2 -- The city government, together with its various partners, has delivered some 526,000 liters of water to El Nino-hit households in the past three weeks.

Data on Thursday showed that from April 9 to May 1, the water delivered benefited 26,629 households in various villages in the city.

Among those who availed of water rationing were residents of Barangays 18, 27, 30 and 33 as well as Villamonte, Felisa, Taculing, Cabug, Mansilingan, Handumanan, Alijis and Mandalagan.

Through the "Patubig Sa Barangay" program, Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez ordered to supply water in areas experiencing drought due to El Nino since the first week of April.

Benitez earlier reported that Bacolod's water supply of 70 million liters of w...