Monrovia – A new Act of Legislature is urging citizens who are commercializing their private wells and boreholes to register with the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC) in order to obtain meter and get billed.
Ibrahim Nyei, a policy maker, commented on social media, “They [LWSC] are not serious!!
They should be thinking of accounting to the people on their failure to deliver adequate water to communities.” As at 2016, only 25 percent of Liberia’s estimated 4.5 million population had access to safe drinking water, according to WaterAid.
Fears are that when the billing of water wells and borehole begins, private owners would increase the cost of water per gallon, thus, making access to safe water more difficult.
Florence Afua Aikins, commented on Facebook, “LWSC is not providing 24 hours running water, why will I want to run a line there?
Some people do not even live within water lines.
Water is not luxury.” Amin Modad, producer of bottled mineral water (PUR Still Mineral Water) also wrote, “This is not a manifestation of Pres.
Weah’s vision.
Do they know how this will impact the ordinary masses who can’t afford wells, but depend on others who have wells in their yards for free and safe drinking water?
These owners of private wells who generously allow their communities to draw from their wells will shut them out.