The untold story of Pre-paid Water Meter and the Urban Poor

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• GAbaa 11 years ago

  I am sorry I wasted my time to read the rubbish you have written here. You have a personal stake in this issue and you should have known better. Uganda's population is half of Ghana and its mostly rural singular family compo ...
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  I am sorry I wasted my time to read the rubbish you have written here. You have a personal stake in this issue and you should have known better. Uganda's population is half of Ghana and its mostly rural singular family compounds. Be very objective with the issues with applying what was accomplished in Uganda, Ghana does not have the infrastructure in place for us to rush into this pre paid issue. We need to get the lines working, pumps ok, and healthy drinking water, no body drinks from the tap anymore, this has to be archived before we think of these one thing fits all...copycat ideas. Uganda has done so Ghana should do it.

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• NAKED 11 years ago

  Nana Ansan i can infer from your comment that you don't have manners right from your childhood so you have grown with. "I will always confront and prevent this HE-GOAT with huge mental problem ilk from poisoning the minds of ...
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  Nana Ansan i can infer from your comment that you don't have manners right from your childhood so you have grown with. "I will always confront and prevent this HE-GOAT with huge mental problem ilk from poisoning the minds of young and uninitiated Ghanaians" my question for you, is insult the only way to confront a person? Can't you use any other means to confront him rather than the insult you are hurling on him? As sensible as you are i was expecting you to confront him with sense of decorum but not an insult as you always do. Opinion they say is like noses it differs from each other, the fact that you didn't agree with Okoampa does not necessarily mean that you should insult him, we can agree to disagree but in our disagreement we shouldn't insult ourselves but not you Nana Ansah the fact that you didn't agree with him means you should insult him but you claimed to be wise, cultured and civilized, don't let jealousy and envy beclouded your sense of judgment
  Now to say that Okoampa have a mental problem so you won't allow him to poisoning the minds of young and uninitiated Ghanaians means that you are a patriotic, i have a few questions for you mr.patriotic man. A woman was bathing the time she realized a mad man has taken her clothe, should the woman chase the mad man or she should let the mad man go and she to continue her bathing? This is the situation where Okoampa you claimed he is a mad man write articles on here.
  Ghanaweb for people to read to free their mind from captivity but Nana Ansah will read and started insulting Okoampa, why are you chasing the mad man? You and the person that you claimed he is mad, who is mad? To tell me that you are preventing him in other not to poisoning the minds of young and uninitiated Ghanaians is bogus and bias. Where were you when Rawlings poisoned the minds of young and initiated Ghanaians with tribalism etc, all the atrocities he perpetrated have you ever write any article against it or lambasting him for what he did? But you are here attacking Okoampa with an insult this alone tells me how hypocrite you are. Nana Ansah you can paint the town red, Okoampa careless, after all he has his own mind so you can go to hell if what you think is right, he is writing what he suppose to write but not what you Nana Ansah think.
  You can call me any name you like but I careless, primitive is a national anthem in Ghana, am proud to be primitive and bush rat as you claimed I am. I will never insult you because I had good parents who brought me up and nurtured me with sense of decorum, insult is the last thing I will do, first of all, I never know you, why should sit behind cyber and insult a person I know him not? I thought you live in Heaven not knowing that you are living on the same earth with me, living in America doesn’t make you a civilized or cultured only black Afrikan like you will always spew such ignorant, you have stepped on a lion tail watch out what is coming, you have open cyber war between us this is just the beginning of our cyber war. For your information I will always defend any article posted by Okoampa, Akadu Mensema, Sarpong and others if you don’t understand go and burn the sea.
  
  Follow me if you can but put all the burdens behind.

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• Dannybee 11 years ago

  The article does not portray a positive impression of any serious progress in water sanitation in Uganda. At best, it is a solution Ugandans have no choice but must accept. If there is proper democracy with a limited term fo ...
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  The article does not portray a positive impression of any serious progress in water sanitation in Uganda. At best, it is a solution Ugandans have no choice but must accept. If there is proper democracy with a limited term for the presidency, Museveni would not allow things to go this far. Ghana needs to look elsewhere for a better model to improve water and sanitation issues. Prepaid metering won't be a solution. We need to ensure rivers that supply us water are protected from unscrupulous land developers. As we keep drying up our rivers through uncontrolled land development we will have nothing to drink. No matter how effective the prepaid system will be, if the destructive practice is not discouraged, it will amount to nothing.

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• Just too angry at this 11 years ago

  Who gave this guy a job? Please take your nonsense write up and shove it where the sun don't shine.
  
  Who has been paying for these useless trips you civil servants take every day?

  Who gave this guy a job? Please take your nonsense write up and shove it where the sun don't shine.
  
  Who has been paying for these useless trips you civil servants take every day?

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• Michael Hardman 11 years ago

  PRE- PAID WATER METERS
  QUESTIONS THAT THE CUSTOMER MUST FIND OUT FROM THE MANUFACTURERS
  QUESTIONS
  1. There water Management Software System, is it compatible with other Manufacturers Management Systems?
  
  2. There water ...
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  PRE- PAID WATER METERS
  QUESTIONS THAT THE CUSTOMER MUST FIND OUT FROM THE MANUFACTURERS
  QUESTIONS
  1. There water Management Software System, is it compatible with other Manufacturers Management Systems?
  
  2. There water Point of Sale Software, is it compatible with other Manufacturers Point of Sales?
  
  3. Are there Water Meters as well as Pulse Outputs compatible with other Manufacturers?
  
  4. What happens to the Solenoid Valve should the Tamper Alarm come on?
  
  5. What is the Battery Life span on the Manufacturers Batteries?
  
  6. Are the manufacturers Products being continually upgraded?
  
  7. Do the manufacturers have Technical backup and Support System in place?
  THE MAINTENANCE AND UP KEEP OF A PRE-PAID WATER METER SYSTEM IS VERY COSTLY YOU NEED A FLEET OF VEHICLES AND WELL TRAINED TECHNICIANS. ON ONE SITE YOU CAN HAVE 300 PRE-PAID UNITS FAILING DUE FAULTY BATTERIES, ELECTRONICS, TAMPERING AND WATER DAMAGE. THIS CAN OCCUR AT MID NIGHT ON A SATURDAY. ALL PRE-PAID SYSTEMS HAVE A SOLENOID VALVE THAT AUTOMATICALLY SHUTS OFF DUE TO FAULTS THAT MAY OCCUR TO PREVENT LOSS OF WATER AND REVENUE. REMEMBER UNTIL THE UNIT HAS BEEN LOCATED AND REPAIRED THE CHANCES ARE THAT THE HOUSEHOLD COULD BE WITHOUT WATER FOR SEVERAL HOURS. SUCH WAS SEVERAL CASES IN SOUTH AFRICA, WHERE THE CUSTOMERS HAD FAULTY UNITS AND THEY HAVE BEEN BY PASSED THE METER SO THAT THE FAMILY CAN GET WATER.
  REMEMBER ONCE YOU BUY INTO PRE-PAID WATER METER SYSTEM YOU ARE PERMANTLY LOCKED INTO THAT MANUFACTURER, YOU CANNOT ASK FOR QUOTES FROM OTHER SUPPLIERS AS THERE POINT OF SALE AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH OTHER MAKES. THEY WILL INCREASE THERE PRICES AS AND WHEN THEY WISH. THEY WILL CHANGE THE SOFTWARE ON THE MANAGEMENT FORCING YOU TO REPLACE EXISTING METERS IN THE GROUND AT A MASSIVE COST.

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