15 THOUSAND USERS IN YEREVAN NOT INSTALLED WATER METERS

Noyan Tapan
Mar 19 2007

YEREVAN, MARCH 19, NOYAN TAPAN. About 15 thousand user of water
supply services in Yerevan have not installed water meters and
pay for services depending on the gap size of the water supplying
pipe. Abgar Yeghoyan, Chairman of Consumer Rights Protection NGO,
told NT correspondent about it.

According to him, the minimum amount of payments calculated by this
method makes 90 thousand drams a month. In his opinion, the debts of
such water users to Yerevan Water company are bad debts.

A. Yeghoyan said that Consumer Rights Protection NGO proposed to the
company management its own version of the problem’s solution: these
users should install water meters and pay up to 20% of debt owed,
while the rest of the debt should be remitted. In his words, Yerevan
Water company’s management gave preliminary agreement to install
water meters of needy user at the expense of the company. There are
about 2,000 such users.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress