The National Water Supply Board has informed over 95,000 customers who have not paid their bills up to October that their water connections were disconnected.
As a result, the total number of water supplies disconnected on October 31 was 95241. According to the board, no information about the number of restored water supplies that have been disconnected is stored in the board’s billing computer system.
However, 12.97 billion rupees is still to be collected in arrears and the board supplies clean water to 3000240 water consumers across the country daily.
