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Midlands Bureau
KWEKWE is finalising an assessment of the performance of demo-prepaid water meters which were installed around the city with a view of adopting the best option.

The local authority last year contracted three companies to install demo-prepaid water meters around Kwekwe to assess their performance.

In an interview yesterday, Kwekwe City director of works, Engineer John Mhike said the local authority is now in the final stages of the assessment and is expecting to roll out the prepaid water meter programme around the city starting next month.

“We have been at the assessment stage for the last six months after three companies installed 300 repaid water meters at 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 start rolling out 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.

“We have three types of meters supplied by different companies. After the completion of the assessment we will then choose the most efficient, but I can’t say which one will be adopted,” said Eng Mhike.