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--- Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Worn out meters, leakages and illegal connections
> have baffled the
> state public works department which puts the
> unbilled water to the
> tune of 35 per cent in this coastal state which has
> 1.80 lac tap
> connections.
>
One major problem I have noticed over the years, in
villages specially, is that public water tap, which is
left running even when not required. Sometimes it is
the worn-out standard-issue bibb-cock tap that is the
problem, but most often it is the user who leaves it
on for "someone else" to turn it off.
Perhaps a good-quality spring-loaded "push when
required" sort of tap - something similar to the
drinking fountains that one sees in parks in the
western world - would be a solution to this perennial
problem. This would have the added advantage of
having no issues with some heavy-heanded person
tightening the tap too tight!
Cheers,
Gabriel de Figueiredo.
Melbourne - Australia.
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