the obligation to pay for municipallymanaged wastewater treatment is also perceived as an unnecessary additional burden for example the ep fee for the households which are not connected to their sewerage system is only of the water tariff which provides no financial incentive for them to connect to the piped sewerage system as a result cities have tended to postpone the costly and unpopular sewerage construction process which also comes with street closure very little progress has been made towards universal connection of individual houses to sewerage systems gggi b