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SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1991

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SAVE-WATER PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED

CAMPAIGN

PROMPTLY CHECK AND NECESSARY IN ORDER

THE WATER SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT IS MOUNTING A PUBLICITY TO URGE THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO SAVE WATER, AND TO REPAIR CONCEALED OR UNDERGROUND LEAKAGE WHENEVER TO AVOID WATER WASTAGE.

A SPOKESMAN

FOR

THE

TELEVISION API

TODAY

(SUNDAY):

"THE

SAID DEPARTMENT

WASTE IT' IS BEING DISSEMINATED IN PUBLIC INTEREST), (ANNOUNCEMENTS

MESSAGE 'WATER IS PRECIOUS. DON'T THROUGH A POSTERS, LEAFLETS AND STICKERS.

AS

"THE PUBLIC ARE REMINDED OF VARIOUS WAYS TO SAVE WATER SUCH

VEGETABLES TAKING A SHOWER INSTEAD OF A BATH AND NOT RINSING HANDS OR UNDER A RUNNING TAP, HE ADDED.

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AT ALERTING THE PUBLIC PROMPTLY DETECTED AND ABNORMALLY HIGH WATER

THE PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN IS ALSO AIMED THAT UNDERGROUND OR CONCEALED LEAKAGE, IF NOT AND WASTAGE RECTIFIED, WILL RESULT IN WATER CHARGES ON THE PART OF THE CONSUMERS.

AN CONSUMPTION, THE

AMOUNTING TO SEVERAL THOUSAND "A HIGH WATER BILL, SOMETIMES DOLLARS FOR A FOUR-MONTH PERIOD, IS OFTEN MISTAKEN BY CONSUMERS AS INDICATION OF A FAULTY METER REGISTERING THE WRONG SPOKESMAN SAID.

ΤΟ BE "CONSUMERS THEN ASK FOR THE METER WITHOUT CONSIDERING THE POSSIBILITY OF LEAKAGE.

RE-READ AND TESTED

LEAK ΤΟ CONTINUE, COULD IN EXTREME

"BY DOING THIS, THEY UNKNOWINGLY ALLOW THE

BILL. THIS WATER AND WILL RECEIVE A MUCH HIGHER CIRCUMSTANCES, EVEN RESULT IN DISCONNECTION OF THE WATER SUPPLY,"

THE SPOKESMAN REMINDED CONSUMERS OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO PAY

FOR ALL THE WATER THAT HAD

PASSED

THROUGH

WHETHER THIS HAD TAKEN PLACE THROUGH NORMAL

LEAKAGE.

THEIR

METERS

NO MATTER CONSUMPTION OR UNAWARED

CHECKING THE PLUMBING THEY SUSPECT ANY

"CONSUMERS SHOULD

SERIOUSLY CONSIDER INSTALLATIONS AND THEIR WATER-USING APPLIANCES, IF

IS METER

RUNNING IRREGULARITIES OR THAT THE WATER

SHOULD BE REPAIRS SHOULD ANY LEAK

DISCOVERED, BE IMMEDIATELY," HE SAID.

WITHOUT

CARRIED

REASON.

OUT

"THEY SHOULD ALSO KEEP THE PLUMBER'S BILL FOR FUTURE REFERENCE. AND REMEDY LEAKAGE, THE IF PROMPT ACTION HAD BEEN TAKEN TO DETECT WATER SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT MAY CONSIDER THE HIGH WATER BILL CONCEALED LEAKAGE WITH SYMPATHY," HE ADDED.

IN 1990, A TOTAL OF 463 APPLICATIONS FOR WATER

OF THIS NATURE WAS RECEIVED.

CAUSED BY

CHARGE WAIVERS

CASES INVOLVING

840,000

MILLION WERE

CUBIC GIVEN

AMONG THESE APPLICATIONS, 323 METRES OF WATER AND TOTAL WATER CHARGES OF $2.24 COMPASSIONATE CONSIDERATION.

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