The prepaid water metres are a welcome development. It has been a long time coming for such an innovation to hit the malawian market. On the other hand, it is well known that projects like these usually meet alot of hiccups. one of them being network problems. Parastatal institutions are usually the hardest hit. A case in point is the Escom Prepaid Billing system. I am reminded of many a time customers have been inconvinienced when buying the prepaid units due to network problems. Apparently they dont even have a contingency network to fall to when such problems arise. In… Read more »