(Photo courtesy of Japan Information and Culture Center, Japanese, Embassy of Japan) MANILA - The Japanese Embassy in Manila turned over on Wednesday the Tokyo-funded potable water system in Natonin, Mountain Province. The project was approved in 2017 and is part of Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) through the Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects (GGP) "Many residents in Brgy. Banawel, Natonin live remotely from available water sources. It takes roughly three hours a day to fetch water from the nearby spring source. During the dry season when communal water sources dry up, the residents would have no other recourse but to use water from an agricultural irrigation canal, which posed grave health concerns," the Embassy said. To address this issue, the Embassy provided a grant amounting to USD79,771 (approximately PHP4 million) to the local government unit of Natonin. The grant covered the construction of a level 2 water system in Barangay Ba