Torit Urban Water Company Supply increasing the price of water tariffs, Oitto Baptist, Managing Director informed the public during a meeting with beneficiaries.
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Baptist mentions that the increment has been implemented since 2021 in January and is expected to continue in the next year 2022.
“Our official implantation started on the 15-January 2021, and we are just informing the public that it will run throughout 2022, there was a bit resistances because of the 100 percent increase that it should have been 25% or 50% increase but we were dictated by the situation and the sustainability principle of how we can sustain the utility or the project at the end of the day they were happy and say they can go with”, he explained.
The director says the purpose of increasing the tariffs is to help in the improvement of the company facilities, and pay salaries of the staff working for the company.
He advises the community to properly use the water for domestic use only.
“Just because we want to make sure that, over head is covered, chemicals, fuel are provided and staff are paid salaries, it is from this revenues that we collect from this people that we use for overhead and machineries, and above all we have to maintain the urban water company, we inform them to reduce their water consumption, because you using the clean water for laying bricks, washing, animals, so you can only put this water for human consumption, and for other use of water you can go to the river and do it there”, he enlightens.
The speaker made the statement to Radio Emmanuel in Torit, Eastern Equatoria State on Friday.