Manual meter reading
Readings and consumption sit in paper registers, hard to reconcile against what's actually billed.
Water billing, simplified
Dhara
Every water connection, billed and collected without the paperwork.
Dhara connects subscriber registration, meter numbers, tariffs and bill generation into one governed system — built for water-supply schemes serving thousands of connections.
What it doesMetering, tariffs and bill collection
Built forWater-supply schemes and utilities
DeploymentStandalone or connected
The problem
Paper registers make revenue hard to see.
Untracked connections
Connections and disconnections are hard to track over time, and revenue quietly leaks as a result.
No visibility for consumers
Subscribers have no way to check a bill or a payment status without visiting an office in person.
What Dhara does
One governed record from connection to collection.
Subscriber & connection registry
Every connection tied to a subscriber, a unique meter number and a service site — one record instead of a paper register.
Tariff-based billing
Unit price and consumption calculated automatically against the tariff assigned to each connection.
Bill generation & collection
Generate, preview and issue bills, with payment and collection records kept against every connection.
Connection status tracking
Know which connections are active, pending or disconnected at any time, by site or by area.
Proven in the field
Already billing real connections, not a pilot on paper.
Dhara's billing engine has already supported water-supply billing under the Emergency Multi-Sector Rohingya Crisis Response Project (EMCRP), serving host and displaced communities across Cox's Bazar district.
Delivered in the fieldReal connections, real bills, real collections — in one of the most operationally demanding regions in the country.
EMCRP was a large-scale, World Bank–financed emergency response programme. Dhara's billing engine handled subscriber records, tariffs and collections for the water-supply connections delivered under it.
How you get it
Fits how your institution already operates.
A complete billing system on its own
Run Dhara on its own as a complete billing system for your water-supply scheme, from subscriber registration through to collection.
Part of your existing software
Already run an enterprise system? Dhara connects into the software you already operate, rather than sitting apart from it.
Start with one scheme