09.04.2025 11:11
The personnel of İSKİ and İGDAŞ, working under İSPER A.Ş., which is affiliated with the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB), have started a work slowdown action due to the inability to reach a result in the collective bargaining process and low wages. As the meters of İSKİ and İGDAŞ were not read across Istanbul, the system became clogged. İSKİ began issuing water bills as "estimated bills." The residents of Istanbul expressed that the estimated bills were high.
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The personnel of ISKI and IGDAS, working under the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) affiliated company ISPER A.Ş., started a work slowdown action in March due to the inability to reach a result in the ongoing collective bargaining process and low wages.
METERS NOT READ
As ISKI and IGDAS meters were not read throughout Istanbul, the system got stuck. In a letter sent to relevant units on April 2, IMM stated that despite increasing the number of field meter reading personnel to a thousand, only 31.12% of the meters belonging to 540,000 subscribers were read.
COMPARATIVE BILL WILL BE ISSUED
Since the meters have not been fully read since that day, ISKI has also started to issue water bills as "comparative bills." The people of Istanbul will receive water bills from ISKI in the coming days with the phrases "Read by comparison" or "Estimated calculation has been made" on them.
On the other hand, a moment showing that comparative bills are being issued at the desk has also emerged.
4 TIMES HIGHER BILL
Some Istanbul residents expressed their outrage on social media, stating that the comparative bills were high. Subscribers who shared their latest ISKI bills on social media indicated that their bills were 4 times higher than their average bills.
WHAT IS A COMPARATIVE BILL?
The billing method prepared based on the average consumption amount of previous months instead of measuring the amount of water used by subscribers during that billing period is called a "comparative bill." This situation may create a disadvantage for subscribers who use less water than the average consumption.
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