Libyan authorities started installing prepaid water meters in Tripoli last Thursday. The move follows on from the start of the widespread installation of prepaid electricity metres over the last weeks. Pilot installations had started a few months ago.
The General Company for Water and Sanitation said the installations are to raise the level of its performance.
The installations of prepaid water meters are for both the owners of commercial activity and households in Tripoli.
The water company called on citizens and owners of commercial activities to go to service centres to install prepaid electronic meters, as the value of the monthly household consumption tariff difference is estimated at a quarter of a dinar per cubic meter.
Prepaid electricity metres pilot scheme launched in March
It will be recalled, and as alluded to earlier, in mid-March of this year, the state General Electricity Company of Libya launched a pilot project to install prepaid card electricity metres. The pilot project had started in the Tripoli district of Zawiat Al-Dahmani.
GECOL said the pilot project come within the context of developing consumer services, diversifying the methods of revenue collection, reducing commercial waste and billing, and in light of the lack of capabilities, the country’s deficit in power generation and the excessive public consumption of electricity.
The prepaid e-electricity metres are now being rolled out over the rest of the year to the rest of the country.
GECOL launches prepaid electricity metres pilot project (libyaherald.com)
