Kwekwe to roll out prepaid water meters

Midlands Bureau
KWEKWE City Council is finalising assessment of the performance of demo-prepaid water meters, which were installed around the city with the view of adopting the best performing ones. The local authority last year contracted three companies to install demo-prepaid water meters around Kwekwe so that they can assess their performance.

In an interview yesterday, Kwekwe city director of works Engineer John Mhike said the local authority was now at the final stages of assessment and expect to roll out the prepaid water meter programme around the city starting next month.
“We are at an assessment stage for the last six months after three companies installed 300 prepaid water meters on selected houses and buildings.

“We have been assessing the performance of these meters and we will identify the best performing ones,” he said.
Eng Mhike said they were expecting to rollout the programme next month.
“It seems the pilot project is working well and we hope by next month we will start rolling out the prepaid meter programme to the entire city,” he said.

Although he could not be drawn to reveal the type of meters the local authority was likely to adopt, Eng Mhike said three companies supplied the meters and they will choose one type out of the three.