Electricity, Gas and Water Supply (EGWS) expanded by 3.8 percent in the second quarter of 2018 from the 3.0 percent growth recorded in the same quarter of 2017. All subsectors posted growth: Electricity, which shared about 87.3 percent to the total EGWS, grew by 3.6 percent from 3.4 percent growth; Water, accelerated to 7.0 percent from 0.2 percent growth; and Steam, grew by 1.8 percent from 0.1 percent growth in the previous year.