Sheikhs skip payments, while the poor in Taiz live on garbage [Archives:2003/668/Local News]

Taiz, September 9 – Sources close to the Water Project in Taiz informed the Yemen Times Taiz bureau that the authorities have failed to convince a rich sheikh living in one of the high class localities in Taiz to pay an amount close to YR one million to the water authority, while in a nearby neighborhood, poor citizens live on food remains found in garbage cans. The poor have also been deprived from water and electricity services due to their inability to pay the cost of installation and fees.
The issue has gone even further to result in huge gaps between the rich and the poor in the city, as authorities have failed to enforce the law on the powerful to pay their water fees, while preventing the poor from getting the basic services.
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