AKRON, Ohio -- The Water Supply Bureau in Akron will stop disconnecting water service beginning Saturday until Jan. 1 to customers who haven't made payments, according to a release from the city.

"I am issuing this annual moratorium so that all of our customers can maintain water service during their holidays," Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan said in the release.

Water service disconnection from non-payment will resume Jan. 2, the release says.

The Water Supply Bureau provides retail water and sewer service and has approximately 85,000 accounts in Akron and the suburbs of Fairlawn, Mogadore and parts of Bath, Cuyahoga Falls, Copley, Coventry Township, Hudson and Springfield.