Ogun Water Corporation to clamps down on illegal connections, meter bypass

Ogun State Water Corporation, OGSWC,has disclosed that a large crackdown is underway to code illegalities perpetrated by immoderate individuals who prosecute successful amerciable h2o connections, metre bypasses arsenic good arsenic unauthorised work lines.

This was made known by the Special Adviser connected Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Water Resources, Damilola Otubanjo, astatine her bureau successful Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta on Thursday.

Otunanjo noted that respective households routinely engaged unaccredited plumbers to bypass meters, often to debar vending centres and devour unmetered water.

She said that specified actions had disrupted the creaseless moving of the Corporation arsenic commensurate gross that should beryllium accruable for the work provided could not beryllium achieved.

The SA called  on the wide nationalist to articulation successful the run against amerciable connections, talk up against vandalism of pipelines and enactment the Corporation’s thrust to proceed successful providing clean, portable treated h2o to household and commercialized establishments crossed the State.

“There are instances wherever individuals executed unauthorised tap-downs connected existing work lines extended to prospective neighbourhoods and adjacent operated commercialized h2o businesses illegally tapped into the State’s main organisation network,” she stated.

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