The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has on Monday, 4 December 2023 embarked on a massive smart water meter replacement programme to improve billing accuracy and acquire reliable data.
Today Mayoral Committee Member for Infrastructure and Engineering, Cllr Khanya Ngqisha led a team of workers in different sites within the Molly Blackburn cluster where the work has started.
He said once the work is complete the accurate readings will be used to caution high water consumers.
“We appeal to residents to give access to their properties so that this work can be done swiftly. This is our deliberate effort to reduce water leaks and make sure that all water is accounted for. We also want to improve on the accuracy of our billing system,” said Cllr Ngqisha.
The current water meters have reached their eight year life span which has led to some of them experiencing problems like water leaks and technical challenges which compromised efficiency.
This meter replacement programme will target residents, industries, institutions, residential flats including ATTP beneficiaries.
The replacement will also do away with estimated data collection that was done due to inaccessibility of some households or businesses.
It will assist the metro to have a much more reliable and accurate data collection that can be used to monitor consumption for better planning and implementation of water saving strategies.
The metro will be working close with Ward Councillors as a direct link for verification of deployed technicians to specific Wards and households to mitigate against opportunistic criminal elements.
Residents are urged to give municipal workers access to their premises for the replacement of the meters. Local ward councillors will be given a list of properties to be visited and residents are asked to contact their ward councillor should there be a safety concern.
Lists of target areas will be shared on all Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality platforms and via the Ward Councillor offices.
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