Water and Sanitation

This allows for higher users of water to be charged increasingly higher rates, and for the cross-subsidisation of lower users by higher users. Additional objectives include:

• increasing water conservation by high consumers paying higher tariffs than low consumption consumers. The purpose is to encourage high consumers to start saving water;
• increasing the current free basic water from 6kl per month to 10kl per month for all registered indigents;
• in the case of consumers with a prepayment meter installed, a free annual allocation of 4kl per household for emergencies; and
• implementing a 2% surcharge on business tariffs.