A workshop to repair 300,000 water meters in the southern sector of the country has been reactivated by Aqua Vitens Rands Ltd (AVRL) as a way of eliminating waste in the water delivery system.
This is part of measures adopted by the management of the company to ensure efficiency and make potable water available to majority of the people in the urban areas.
The Managing Director of AVRL, Mr Andrew Barber, said six out of every 10 of its customers had meters and added that the exercise would continue till all properties were covered.
He said another consignment of 5,000 meters had been ordered from abroad to meet the expansion programme of the Ghana Water Company Ltd.
Mr Barber said as soon as funds were available, the company would order more meters to ensure that all areas that required metering had them.
He said as a means of improving efficiency, a call office and Geological Information Systems would soon be set up to ensure that the distribution of water in the country improved, both in quality and quantity.
The Chairman of the Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC), Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, said the reactivation of the meter workshop had demonstrated the company’s commitment to efficiency and waste reduction in the system.
He appealed to customers to take good care of government property on their premises to ensure that it lasted longer.
The Meter Workshop Manager, Mr Noble Bediako, said the country had been divided into two zones to enable the repair works to be carried out as soon as faults were detected.
He said the southern sector workshop, based in Accra, would cater for the Greater Accra, Eastern, Volta, Western and Central regions, where there was a large concentration of the meters.
Mr Bediako said the northern sector would have its meters repaired at the meter workshop in Kumasi to enable the company to maximise the utilisation of its resources.
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