Mr Bodkin makes an excellent point of the untenable water rate issue. He is right, the rate structure is extremely unfair.
The current policy of the Board is supposed to recover half the costs from infrastructure fees (base fees) and half from user fees.
Based on this policy half of your bill should be the cost of the water you used with a matching cost for infrastructure. Unfortunately, this only happens when your quarterly consumption is about 83 cubic meters (base fee: $102.00, user fee: $101.91).
Here are a couple of examples of bills at various consumption (base fee includes meter fee of $7.00):
15 cu. m. per quarter: Base fee: $102.00, user fee: $ 11.85, ratio: 90% - 10%.
50 cu. m. per quarter: Base fee: $102.00, user fee: $ 47.40, ratio: 68% - 32%.
150 cu. m. per quarter: Base fee: $102.00, user fee: $ 260.70, ratio: 28% - 72%.
900 cu. m. per quarter: Base fee: $102.00, user fee: $2038.20, ratio: 5% - 95%
Does anyone believe that these figures comply with the 50-50 policy established by the Board? Is it fair that the less water you use the more of your money goes to infrastructure costs? The policy is that half of your fee should go to infrastructure costs and the other half pay for the operation and maintenance of the system.
Another problem is that Industrial, Commercial and Institutional customers pay a lower rate than domestic customers. All customers should be paying the same rate.
Does anyone believe that these figures comply with the 50-50 policy established by the Board? Is it fair that the less water you use the more of your money goes to infrastructure costs? The policy is that half of your fee should go to infrastructure costs and the other half pay for the operation and maintenance of the system.
Another problem is that Industrial, Commercial and Institutional customers pay a lower rate than domestic customers. All customers should be paying the same rate.
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