GWCL metering is theft of the highest order - Policy analyst

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Turn $ 9.75 into $ 600,000.00 11 years ago

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jomo king 11 years ago

this guy does not understand metering

this guy does not understand metering
Albert 11 years ago

Any sense here at all? If water is not accessible (from your own statement) will your prepaid unit run out? Tell us something to prove that you are capable of delivering when voted to office but not just unnecessary ‘pull h ...
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Any sense here at all? If water is not accessible (from your own statement) will your prepaid unit run out? Tell us something to prove that you are capable of delivering when voted to office but not just unnecessary ‘pull him down’ talk show
Akpaklika Mewua Lo Ode 11 years ago

Think again, yes the pre-paid unit will run out having supplied the meter with air!!!

By the time you prove your point, there would have been no money left in your coffers to buy an alternate supply of water.

Think again, yes the pre-paid unit will run out having supplied the meter with air!!!

By the time you prove your point, there would have been no money left in your coffers to buy an alternate supply of water.
Obiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 11 years ago

We should encourage ourselves individually and/or as a community and have as much as possible more well and purification system in place if not very soon OXYGEN and CARBON DIOXIDE would be for sale since the government is tax ...
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We should encourage ourselves individually and/or as a community and have as much as possible more well and purification system in place if not very soon OXYGEN and CARBON DIOXIDE would be for sale since the government is taxing, raising tariffs and increasing VAT on our basic needs of existence.I know by now the medium and smaller companies in the country are no more in existence.
Ghanababa! 11 years ago

In Ghana every idiot can stand p and talk non sense? where will they get the money from "flowing water if we are not prepared to to pay? if we want our nation to go on, we should lear to be independent of freebies! We like fr ...
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In Ghana every idiot can stand p and talk non sense? where will they get the money from "flowing water if we are not prepared to to pay? if we want our nation to go on, we should lear to be independent of freebies! We like free things too much and idiots like this useless analyst can also voice out! what policy is he analysing? giving water meters so we can pay the fair share and we can pay what we use? why should the poor cry? they use less amount of water anyway or one person will get all the water into a tank and retail?

useless bunch of opposition who see no light! Ghana will go on! Even Russia is no more in communism. Very soon we could be North Korea's next door. I am tired and sick of useless so called policy analysts and useless PHd holders. Kokoase men can even reason because all PHD and analyst's mind are consumed by politics and greed. Ghana is moving, people are getting educated so will they know one day that unless we change our attitude and anderstand that no freebies, we will never go on. because no country has ever done it!
Alex London 11 years ago

Personally I do not think installing water supply meters is a bad thing as it focuses on the need for consumers to economise the use of water.
However what the policy appears to have failed to realise is the predominent comm ...
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Personally I do not think installing water supply meters is a bad thing as it focuses on the need for consumers to economise the use of water.
However what the policy appears to have failed to realise is the predominent communinial residence- the compound residency.
I have installed a meter in my house in Ghana. But the supply of water is non existence and luckly I had well to supply water in the house.
Me bad 11 years ago

Who on earth dreamt of the idea of introducing prepaid water metering. He must be a real twit .

Who on earth dreamt of the idea of introducing prepaid water metering. He must be a real twit .
francis atsu italy 11 years ago

Pay for what you consume .Simple as that . The system needs a reform and this is what the company is doing to avoid colapse of the system.The very people who would point their long fingers at the copmpany for colapse ,are the ...
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Pay for what you consume .Simple as that . The system needs a reform and this is what the company is doing to avoid colapse of the system.The very people who would point their long fingers at the copmpany for colapse ,are the very people opposing the reforms .
GAbaa 11 years ago

PLEASE THINK FROM WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND NOT EUROPE. ITALY WHERE YOU ARE PICKING TOMATOES. HOW CAN YOU ENFORCE PRE PAID METERED WATER IN GHANA. YOU HAVE MULTI MULTI AND I MEAN MULTI FAMILY HOUSEHOLDS.

PLEASE THINK FROM WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND NOT EUROPE. ITALY WHERE YOU ARE PICKING TOMATOES. HOW CAN YOU ENFORCE PRE PAID METERED WATER IN GHANA. YOU HAVE MULTI MULTI AND I MEAN MULTI FAMILY HOUSEHOLDS.

Akpaklika Mewua Lo Ode 11 years ago

Ghanaians will be paying for air upfront; you may argue same thing is being done presently even though they are credit meters, but the technologies are not the same and I bet the pre-paid will be more cheating than the credit ...
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Ghanaians will be paying for air upfront; you may argue same thing is being done presently even though they are credit meters, but the technologies are not the same and I bet the pre-paid will be more cheating than the credit meters
GAbaa 11 years ago

SINCE I CAN REMEMBER THERE IS ONE ONE METER SERVING THE WHOLE COMPOUND WHERE I LIVED. THERE WAS ABOUT EIGHT FAMILIES LIVING THERE ARE WE GOING TO GET 8 TAPS WITH THE PRE PAID METERS TO EACH FAMILY. WHO IS GOING TO BEAR THE CO ...
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SINCE I CAN REMEMBER THERE IS ONE ONE METER SERVING THE WHOLE COMPOUND WHERE I LIVED. THERE WAS ABOUT EIGHT FAMILIES LIVING THERE ARE WE GOING TO GET 8 TAPS WITH THE PRE PAID METERS TO EACH FAMILY. WHO IS GOING TO BEAR THE COST OF THE PIPE LAYOUTS. GHANAIAN POLICY MAKERS ARE LAZY, THIS IDEA SHOLUD NOT HAVE EVEN COME UP FOR DISCUSSION AT THIS LEVEL. ITS VERY ELEMENTARY IN OUR CIRCUMSTANCES. MAYBE THEY CAN START THEM AT THE ESTATE HOUSES THAT THEY OCCUPY. ONE FAMILY ONE BILL. I KNOW OF NO PLACE ON THIS PLANET DO YOU PAY BEFORE YOU USE WATER. AS FELA KUTI SAID WATER HAS NO ENEMY EVERYBODY NEEDS IT TO LIVE.
KWAA 11 years ago

In a Country where an individual must provide everything like water,electricity,(the other day a Minister was telling us we should cater for our own Roads and take toll)one wonders why we keep on paying taxes.
Economy manage ...
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In a Country where an individual must provide everything like water,electricity,(the other day a Minister was telling us we should cater for our own Roads and take toll)one wonders why we keep on paying taxes.
Economy management is so simple,but it seems our socalled experts are not getting it.
Citizens pay taxes for Government to provide basic things like water,electricity,roads and so on,for us to rent,meaning paying water bills,electricity bills and so on.Government is suppose to make laws that Investors can invest and creat jobs,workers will then pay tax,companies will pay coperate tax and so on.So Government can keep on providing infrastructure for the whole system to work.In short economy management of a State is recycling.
Why this simple thing is not working in Ghana is a mystery to me.
Now they want us to pay for water in advance,what a Government.
I don't think anywhere in this World anybody is prepaying for water.
k. Agyei 11 years ago

These small boys want Ghana to continue in the dark. Analyst my foot. How many studies has Atik conducted? Due to IC our journalist. Learn from policy analysts from just Burkina, and you would realise you are a partisan popul ...
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These small boys want Ghana to continue in the dark. Analyst my foot. How many studies has Atik conducted? Due to IC our journalist. Learn from policy analysts from just Burkina, and you would realise you are a partisan populist.
Ganyo 11 years ago

You misfired on this one Atik. This is what happens when you criticize for it`s sake. Think this through and come back with reasonableness.

You misfired on this one Atik. This is what happens when you criticize for it`s sake. Think this through and come back with reasonableness.
Mr. tina 11 years ago

Metering is not a problem but accessible water to all is my problem. Even the capital is not having water. Madina, Adenta, ashaley botwe and other towns has no water.

Metering is not a problem but accessible water to all is my problem. Even the capital is not having water. Madina, Adenta, ashaley botwe and other towns has no water.
Ewe pride 11 years ago

No surprise here,this metering fraud is a natural progression of inherent ashanti greed.Anywhere these pests populate there follows thievery,fraud and greed since that's their culture.The best way to heal our nation is for th ...
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No surprise here,this metering fraud is a natural progression of inherent ashanti greed.Anywhere these pests populate there follows thievery,fraud and greed since that's their culture.The best way to heal our nation is for the real owners of Ghana-the Gas,Ewes and Gonjas to make ashanti genocide our goal so that these ugly greedy maggots can go back to their native Mali & Ivory Coast.
James. 11 years ago

What a fool? Do you know when these Gas and Ewes you talking of came to Ghana? and where they came from? Visit your history books again if have any.

What a fool? Do you know when these Gas and Ewes you talking of came to Ghana? and where they came from? Visit your history books again if have any.
MO SI PIAA 11 years ago

This bola bird too be analyst? I guess he analysis his mother's pubic hair. Kwasea like that.

This bola bird too be analyst? I guess he analysis his mother's pubic hair. Kwasea like that.
Akpaklika Mewua Lo Ode 11 years ago

1. Prepaid Water Meters Pave the Way for Privatization
The World Bank states that prepaid meters can "facilitate cost-recovery and accelerate private sector participation in provision of water services."
Cost-recovery and ...
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1. Prepaid Water Meters Pave the Way for Privatization
The World Bank states that prepaid meters can "facilitate cost-recovery and accelerate private sector participation in provision of water services."
Cost-recovery and privatization are key conditions in World Bank lending – policies that continue to undermine access and affordability of clean water for all and promote the increased involvement of large water corporations. Prepaid water meters are also a tool used under private contract in order to secure profits for the shareholders, not the access to water for the users.

2. Prepaid Water Meters Perverts Demand Management

Prepaid water meters facilitate effective demand management in a very cruel manner: when you are unable to afford the charge you are simply cut off. Studies have shown that prepaid water meters have reduced the demand of water up to 65%, leaving poor consumers with the bare minimum of water for their daily consumption because they are unable to afford the water they need.

The use of prepaid water meters has resulted in outbreaks of cholera when families are forced to use polluted water, and forced kids to wear dirty clothes to school when their families are unable to get the water they need to wash. It exacerbates the burden and the stigma of poor families.

3. Prepaid Water Meters Remove Procedural Protections and Consumer Safeguards

Prepaid water meters fundamentally change the social relationship households have traditionally had with water providers. Prepaid water meters remove all safeguards for the consumer. The relationship between the consumer and the water provider is minimized to the communication between the household and the meter.

The water utility distances itself from ordinary consumer connections such as billing and fee collection, but most importantly, the consumers are removed from hearing proceedings and disputes when billing occur on a faulty basis. When you run out of water the only resolve is to buy additional water units at stores that are closed at night. Running out of water at night means that you will not be able to flush your toilet until you find the money and time to go to the store.

Households are forced to self-disconnect when they run out of water because there is no dispute mechanism in place to challenge the cut off procedure.

4. Prepaid Water Meters Exacerbate Emergencies

In the event of fire a lot of water is needed to put it out – but with prepaid water meters households are likely to find themselves cut off during extinguishing the fire. The prepaid water meter does not understand emergencies. With no fire hydrants - if a fire happens at night you unable to buy additional water at the store – even if you would have the time to do so.

5. Prepaid Water Meters Undermine Public Health

Prepaid meters force households to decrease their consumption of water and to make difficult trade-offs between food, medicines, school fees, transportation and other essential goods and services and the consumption of water. As a result, families survive on less than the World Health Organization recommended minimum water consumption for life of at least 25 litres of water per day for basic survival (100 liters per day is needed to sustain human development).

A lower consumption of water severely limits the ability of development and creates an undignified situation for the poor. In the United Kingdom, prepaid water meters were associated with an increase in dysentery when families self-disconnected after being unable to pay for service.

In South Africa, in KwaZulu Natal 113,966 people were infected with cholera after prepaid water meters replaced communal standpipes. The increased use of prepaid water meters undermines the health gains sought through the improved delivery of and access to clean water.

6. Prepaid Water Meters are More Expensive
Despite potential management savings prepaid water meters are provided at a higher rate for users as compared to a traditional billing system. Prepaid water meters are sold as a high-tech solution and come at a higher price (normally around US$150) than any other meter. In the Global South a majority of people live on less than U.S.$2 a day, paying up to 50% of that in water fees. Families have to choose between water and other necessities for survival and life with dignity.

7. Prepaid Water Meters Increase Conflicts in our Communities
Communities traditionally share the burden of providing access to water for all. With the implementation of prepaid water meters, water becomes an individualized marketed commodity and social relations in the communities erode when families run out of water. In desperate need, families ‘steal’ water from each other when they are unable to afford to buy the water they need for basic survival.

8. Prepaid Water Meters Magnifies Inequality
Prepaid water meters are promoted in poor areas in order to secure payments from families who have difficulties paying under ordinary circumstances. Prepaid water meters are not promoted in wealthy areas.

9. Prepaid Water Meters Violate the Right to Water

The human right to water has been recognized in the United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Prepaid water meters abuse the core of this international treaty by denying access to clean water to those in most need. Instead, prepaid water meters force poor families to use unsafe water sources once they lose their ability to pay.

10. Prepaid Water Meters Exacerbates Gender Inequality

When families find themselves unable to pay for prepaid water services, they are forced to use alternative sources of water. That forces women and children backward into the traditional role as water carriers and undermines educational and gender equality gains that can be reached through simple improvements in water supply.

11. Prepaid Water Meters Abuse Willingness to Pay against Ability to Pay

World Bank and private companies justify prepaid water meters and state that even poor households are willing to pay increasing tariffs for access to clean water. Aside from addressing the wrong problem, prepaid water meters do not make access to water cheaper for the poor. This argument abuses the fact that all human beings need water for basic survival. Instead, these decision makers must start analyzing the ability to pay. Households should not be forced to give up food in order to buy water

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