Water Bills: WASA to crack down on defaulters

MULTAN:

The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has decided to launch a crackdown on defaulters. In a statement issued on Friday, the agency said outstanding bills had increased to Rs650 million. Wasa managing director Chaudhry Mohammad Shamim said that the agency would no longer adopt any leniency with the defaulters. He said in the next few days an operation would be launched and all defaulters would be arrested. He said over 60 per cent of their clients in Multan had not cleared their bills. He said water supply to tube wells would be cut in case they don’t clear their bills. He said arrests and disconnections had now become ‘indispensable’ for recovery of outstanding payments. He appealed the consumers clear their bills and save themselves the trouble of being arrested and prosecuted.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 11th, 2011.