{"id":15048,"date":"2019-03-19T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T07:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=15048"},"modified":"2019-03-26T08:02:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T00:02:34","slug":"brunei-introduces-prepaid-system-to-curb-waste-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=15048","title":{"rendered":"Brunei introduces prepaid system to curb waste of water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, March 19 (NNN-BERNAMA-XINHUA)&nbsp;&#8212; Brunei is expected to introduce prepaid water meters this year to curb the high water usage in the country, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brunei&#8217;s Minister of Development Suhaimi said the introduction of prepaid water meters is hoped to reduce waste of water in the sultanate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The use of clean water in Brunei is still the highest in Association of Southeast Asian Nations at 380 liters per person a day,&#8221; said the minister during Monday&#8217;s Legislative Council meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brunei&#8217;s water consumption of 380 liters per person a day was higher than Malaysia&#8217;s 210 liters per person a day and Singapore&#8217;s 150 liters per person a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;With regards to this, the Ministry of Development will implement initiatives that are expected to help reduce water wastage like the introduction of the Unified Smart Metering Solutions,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the prepaid metering system is going to be introduced in stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This change to the water tariff system will be implemented at a suitable time to ensure that it will not cause undesired difficulties and burden to the public, especially to low income families,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, March 19 (NNN-BERNAMA-XINHUA)&nbsp;&#8212; Brunei is expected to introduce prepaid water meters this year to curb the high water usage in the country, Xinhua news agency reported. Brunei&#8217;s Minister of Development Suhaimi said the introduction of prepaid water meters is hoped to reduce waste of water in the sultanate. &#8220;The use of clean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":15079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}