High Court to rule on prepaid water metres
The Johannesburg High Court will make a ruling on the lawfulness of prepayment water meters and adequacy of free basic supply on Wednesday, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at the Wits Law Clinic said.
The head of the Litigation Unit, Stuart Wilson, said that this case was brought by five desperately poor residents of Phiri, Soweto, on behalf of themselves, their households and all similarly situated residents.
The residents have either had their water cut off by Johannesburg Water or been persuaded to accept prepaid meters as the only alternative to a total disconnection of the water supplied to their homes and the installation of a limited-flow yard pipe.
