The South Lebanon Water Establishment announced it will stop receiving, on 26-11-2026, requests for name transfer, subscription cancellation, subscription reduction and fixing, meter increases, sewage conversion, and the dropping of verifications or halting their issuance, with that day being the last deadline for these transactions to reach the main center in Sidon. It said the measure is temporary and applied periodically at the end of each year as the fiscal year closing approaches, and news websites relayed an alert about a "final deadline" for subscribers.
MTV Lebanon carried the full administrative detail of the announcement (types of transactions, date, receiving location and the temporary nature of the measure), whereas the two other outlets focused on the "final deadline" framing and warned subscribers without listing the transactions, and one of them did not specify the date.