Jamaica Gleaner

I won’t pay exorbitant water bill

- KADIE ANN MUNDELL kadiemunde­ll21@yahoo.com

This is an open letter to Dr Horace Chang, minister without portfolio with responsibi­lity for water. MY CUSTOMER number is 1065690 and premises number 1065950.

Some time ago, a new meter was installed at my premises. Since then, I have been receiving some exorbitant water bills. But the ones that were way overboard were the bills for September and October.

I reported the situation. An NWC employee came, checks were made, and the gentleman indicated that he could not figure out what was the cause of this sudden increase as there was no leak.

I paid the September bill because I did not want the account to be disconnect­ed. However, I will not pay the October bill until I get some answers.

How can one bill move from $5,000 to $9,000 without any changes.

I would like this to be further investigat­ed as I cannot afford to be paying these exorbitant water bills, which are even higher than the light

bill, and I have done nothing differentl­y.

Please look into this situation

and have the relevant persons come to do a thorough investigat­ion.

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 ??  ?? Charles Buchanan, PR point man at the NWC.
Charles Buchanan, PR point man at the NWC.

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