Now we must pay for saving water

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Durban - Saving water has a down side for Durban residents as they may soon be paying higher municipal bills.

The extra cost comes from an additional drought levy, authorised by the government, to compensate bulk water supplier Umgeni Water for getting less revenue from councils like eThekwini because of lower consumption during the drought.

eThekwini Municipality’s head of water, Ednick Msweli, said the drought levy, for which a final report had yet to be submitted to council, would mean that customers would pay more for using less water.

Msweli said the city had raised its objection to the levy in a submission to Umgeni Water.
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More at: http://www.iol.co.za/ios/news/now-we-must-pay-for-saving-water-2072399
 
Hey, if Eskom can do it ...
 
Fsck that, won't pay some levy just to keep Umgeni Waters books looking decent.

eThekwini can sort out its water leak problems, then I would consider it.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Fsck that, won't pay some levy just to keep Umgeni Waters books looking decent.

eThekwini can sort out its water leak problems, then I would consider it.
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Happens around the world, I think producing water to relatively cheap , but infrastructure cost are high ,so if you use one liter or five million their cost remain high
 
Just wait till municipalities starting to tax residents for having solar power. As more and more municipalities start losing revenue from electricity sales due to rich households going off grid it's going to happen. It already happens in the States.
 
So you getting restrictions on water and now they want to fine you for actually listening to them.
The worst is that the people that actually makes it a reality go yeah lets sign that in as it makes sense to do this......
 
I never saved a drop. My consumption remained steady.
 
schumi said:
Happens around the world, I think producing water to relatively cheap , but infrastructure cost are high ,so if you use one liter or five million their cost remain high
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So by the same token if we use a lot we should be paying less, kind of like buying a data bundle

If I could, I would buy an uncapped water supply - unfortunately nature won't approve my FICA
 
Well I never received a traffic fine this year, so they should just charge me to meet quotas. Hell I never murdered anyone, yet I filled in a census form, so police resources potentially went unused, bill me a service-waste-levy.
 
schumi said:
Happens around the world, I think producing water to relatively cheap , but infrastructure cost are high ,so if you use one liter or five million their cost remain high
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What if they did fsck-all maintenance which was a massive factor in water shortages?
 
So the want to charge you for something that not only you didn't use, but wasn't there to sell.

:crylaugh:
 
Milano said:
What if they did fsck-all maintenance which was a massive factor in water shortages?
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Perhaps they did not i would not know, but this has been one of the lowest rainfall in Durban in many years and the strongest el nino, I know it comes around often but not this heavy and they are currently investing in many water projects
 
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26 SEPTEMBER 2016 15:53 (SOUTH AFRICA)
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SOUTH AFRICA
Water-shedding: Feel it, it is (almost) here
NIKI MOORE SOUTH AFRICA 25 JUN 2015 12:56 (SOUTH AFRICA)

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If you think load-shedding is bad, brace yourself for water-shedding... coming to a tap near you. South Africa is fast running out of water, with the worst drought since 1992 leaving dams at critical levels and diminishing rivers and streams. By NIKI MOORE.

The reason for any potential water shedding is almost a mirror image of why we have load-shedding. Since 1994, millions of people have been added to the water grid with very little thought being given to increasing the capacity of water storage or water intake plants. Combined with mismanagement of water, non-payment for water, huge water wastage through lack of maintenance and neglect, and poor governance through corruption, we are facing a high noon of water shortages that might start affecting us in as soon as a few months.

Smaller municipalities are going to be hit first, and hardest. The Kannaland Municipality (Caltizdorp) has a month of water left. Parts of KZN – northern Ethekwini, the South Coast, the rural north – are facing water restrictions as dams dry up. Much of South Africa is about to be declared an official drought zone. Even where water utilities have access to adequate water supplies – such as the Lesotho Highlands Water Scheme and the Midmar Dam – the strain will be immense. Water will have to be pumped from large dams to smaller dams; pollution will increase in rivers and dams as the water level decreases, water tables will drop as people pump more from boreholes.

While the current crisis can be blamed on the severe drought, there is a large element of bad governance as well. Twenty years of municipal mismanagement has come home to roost, meaning that between 50% and 70% of our fresh water is being wasted through burst pipes, malfunctioning pumps, broken taps and reckless water use (the 'acceptable' global figure for non-revenue water is 30%). Adding to our water woes is an historical accumulation of bad waste-water treatment: fully half of our waste-treatment plants are operating below average standards and fully a third are critical. Fresh water is needed to flush out the pollution of raw sewage oozing into our dams and rivers, and a drought will concentrate effluent to dangerous levels.

Source:dm
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50 to 70 percent
 
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