For the past 49 years of its existence, the Quezon Metropolitan Water District proudly stands in the forefront as one of the strong water districts in the Southern Tagalog region and in the archipelago. It plays a significant and major role in the common task of making its service areas a better place to live in by providing our concessionaires in Lucena City, Tayabas City and the Municipality of Pagbilao, with an efficient and effective water supply system.

Being among the earliest water districts to be formed in the country on January 29, 1975, QMWD received early financial, technical and institutional development assistance from the national government through the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA).

QMWD is first known as the Lucena-Pagbilao-Tayabas Water District or simply LUPATA and obtained LWUA’s Conditional Certificate of Conformance No. 17 on May 16, 1975. Its water sources include six high yielding springs, located upland enabling water to be supplied by gravity and another 16 production wells.

QMWD went through a series of tough and difficult tests. These formative years served as its learning and adjustment period. Time had continuously tested the water district but like the proverbial sphinx that rose from the ashes it has emerged triumphant notwithstanding the occasional bombardment from its critics in the media and local government.

Admittedly far from being perfect, we are constantly striving to be above the standard in terms of achieving the vision of the water district : A modernized Water District as the most progressive, independent, financially viable and very large public servant in the delivery of safe, potable and adequate water in Quezon Province gaining the lead on water supply development projects which covers a wide spectrum of interrelated programs guided with high reliablity measures, service viability and sustainability through good business practices, sound fiscal administration, public accountability and community wide acceptance, support and patronage setting global paradigm in terms of compliance to operational , health and safety standards.