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                    [Summary] => The 33-member Philippine Cooperative Center has found a money maker. It is lending its member-cooperatives the money to buy the drinking water system  distributed by Multi Pure Phils. Corp. 


Each drinking water system costs about $230, plus the annual cost of P2,900 to replace the filter.  The cooperative can sell the  clean water at 22 centavos a bottle compared to the P8 charged by bottled water companies. 


From the sale of water, the member-cooperative can pay back the loan. Whatever else is earned would be divided among  coop members at the end of the year. 


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                    [AuthorName] => Estela Banzon-De La Paz
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Each drinking water system costs about $230, plus the annual cost of P2,900 to replace the filter.  The cooperative can sell the  clean water at 22 centavos a bottle compared to the P8 charged by bottled water companies. 


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Cheap, clean drinking water

By Estela Banzon-De La Paz | October 14, 2002 - 12:00am

The 33-member Philippine Cooperative Center has found a money maker. It is lending its member-cooperatives the money to buy the drinking water system distributed by Multi Pure Phils. Corp. Each drinking water...

Business As Usual