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No less than Leonardo da Vinci said that "water is the driving force of all
nature." Water is undeniably, a basic human need. This point is driven more
emphatically by this quote by W.H Auden: "Thousands have lived without love, note
me without water" For the City of Batangas, the main provider of this most basic of
needs is the Batangas City Water District. Its history, from its early beginnings to the
present is compelling. In the early days finding a water source for human
consumption was a self-effort. However, modernization dictated a need for a more
efficient, stable and centralized means of providing the need for water to a growing
population. In the early twentieth century, between the years 1918 to 1921, the local
government of the Municipality of Batangas spearheaded an initiative for the
development of the Batangas Waterworks to supply the needs of its constituents in
the then fast-growing municipality in the Southern Tagalog region. (The Batangas
City Water District - A Journey Through Time, 2017)