{"id":62151,"date":"2020-03-02T11:28:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=62151"},"modified":"2020-03-02T11:29:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:29:13","slug":"smart-water-meters-curb-illegal-connections-water-wastage-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/smart-water-meters-curb-illegal-connections-water-wastage-punjab.html","title":{"rendered":"Smart water meters to curb illegal connections, water wastage in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Water &amp; Sanitation Agency (WASA) has announced to install smart water meters across Punjab to curb illegal connections and water wastage, a news source reported. To facilitate this measure, the agency will install more than seven million new meters on both domestic and commercial connections in the province at a cost of PKR 10.353 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-lahore-establish-six-wastewater-treatment-plants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WASA to establish six wastewater treatment plants in Lahore (opens in a new tab)\">WASA to establish six wastewater treatment plants in Lahore<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASA plans to complete the process of installing 711, 265\nmeters in two years. In a recent meeting of the Public-Private Partnership Cell\nof Planning &amp; Development Board, Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Sardar Usman\nBuzdar provided his approval to the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASA Managing Director (MD) Syed Zahid Aziz stated that\ncustomers would not have to pay the cost of the meters in one go. He added that\nthe public sector partners would pay 80% of the cost and the provincial government\nwould incur the remaining 20% amount. He revealed that consumer would pay the\ncost of the meters in instalments over a period of 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the installation of the smart meters, WASA aims to minimise it losses due to non-meter billing. In this way, the agency will tap into 40% of its revenue it loses due to water wastage. WASA also expects to control illegal water connections and water wastage related to domestic users with these efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-land-acquisition-drive-setting-up-lahores-first-surface-water-treatment-plant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WASA starts land acquisition drive for setting up Lahore\u2019s first surface water treatment plant (opens in a new tab)\">WASA starts land acquisition drive for setting up Lahore\u2019s first surface water treatment plant<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) study\nrevealed that 40% water produced in Lahore did not contribute to any revenue generation.\nIt further stated that WASA\u2019s current water supply system worked on over-exploration\nof ground water and un-metered water supply; addingthat this kind of system led\nto significant water losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Water &amp; Sanitation Agency (WASA) has announced to install smart water meters across Punjab to curb illegal connections and water wastage, a news source reported. To facilitate this measure, the agency will install more than seven million new meters on both domestic and commercial connections in the province at a cost of PKR 10.353 billion. Read: WASA to establish six wastewater treatment plants in Lahore WASA plans to complete the process of installing 711, 265 meters in two years. In a recent meeting of the Public-Private Partnership Cell of Planning &amp; Development Board, Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Sardar Usman Buzdar provided his approval to the project. WASA Managing Director (MD) Syed Zahid Aziz stated that customers would not have to pay the cost of the meters in one go. He added that the public sector partners would pay 80% of the cost and the provincial government would incur the remaining 20% amount. He revealed that consumer would pay the cost of the meters in instalments over a period of 10 years. With the installation of the smart meters, WASA aims to minimise it losses due to non-meter billing. In this way, the agency will tap into 40% of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":60450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[21534,39,1008,251,21536,8751,21535],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-details-on-smart-water-meters-to-curb-illegal-connections","9":"tag-lahore","10":"tag-punjab","11":"tag-wasa","12":"tag-water-connections","13":"tag-water-scarcity","14":"tag-water-wastage-in-punjab","15":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Smart water meters to curb illegal connections, water wastage in Punjab - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Water &amp; 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