 When this was rejected, it asked that revenue billing and collection should be outsourced to a private company for at least one service area on a pilot basis, and that DWASA should be transformed into a commercially oriented utility.The outsourcing in one service area was done in 1997, but the pilot project was not deemed successful and was stopped.DWASA's activities have been reorganised by the Dhaka WASA Act, 1996 that transformed DWASA into a service-oriented commercial organisation.