KARACHI, June 15: Terming the KWSB’s revenue recovery position as ‘poor,’ the utility’s Managing Director, Ghulam Arif, said here on Thursday that though an eight per cent increase in revenue has been achieved in the current fiscal year, it is not satisfactory and hence required more efforts on the part of the utility’s revenue officials.

Admitting that non-revenue water (NRW) is very high, he attributed it to water theft and illegal connections, saying that such practices were not only rampant outside the city’s jurisdiction but within the city limits.

He said this while delivering a speech at a one-day orientation workshop on “Performance Benchmarking” held at a local hotel here under the aegis of the KWSB with the technical support of the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Programme for South Asia (WSP-SA).

The other speakers included World Bank economist Alexander V. Danilenko, KWSB’s Deputy Managing Director (Planning) Suleman Chandio, the WSP-SA’s Mark Ellery and Masroor Ahmad. A large number of the KWSB’s senior officers including Chief Engineers Asoodomal, Ali Mohammad Palejo, Syed Israr Zaidi and others were present on the occasion.