The Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission has said it will properly regulate the charges and water quality by commercial water and wastewater service providers in estates across the state.

According to a statement on Sunday, the Executive Secretary of LASWARCO, Mrs Funke Adepoju, was quoted to have disclosed this during a stakeholders’ engagement held at the commission’s office with the Lekki Estates Residents and Stakeholders Association, in Ikeja, Lagos.

She said, “In performing its functions and exercising its powers, Section 311, Subsection 1 of the Harmonised Lagos State Environmental Management Protection Law, 2017 empowers LASWARCO to protect the long-term interests of consumers with regards to price, quality and reliability of services in the water sector.

“The commission is also statutorily empowered to regulate activities relating to abstraction, provision, consumption, production, supply, distribution, sale and use of water, the quality of service and the tariff payable to ensure the financial stability of the water sector and regulate allowable returns to the operators, be it public or private water service provision.

“In line with its mandate, therefore all required efforts will be channelled in line with the provision of the law to ensure that utility service providers in estates (of more than 50 tenements) across the state deliver value for money, comply with standards, and guidelines, including having the prescribed license and permit to operate as water service providers.”