Why You Will Pay 18.1% More For Water
Customers of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) will see an 18.1 per cent increment on their bills from July 1, this year. This follows an 8.1 per cent increment in water tariff and the restoration of a 10 per cent levy to run the Teshie Water Desalination Plant. That levy was waived when the plant shut down its operations last year. The depreciation of the Ghana cedi and inflation have been cited as the factors that necessitated the tariff increment. In arriving at the new tariff, the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), the regulatory body that sets utility tariffs, restored the 10 per cent line item charged to run the Teshie Water Desalination Plant, before slapping the substantive increment necessitated by inflation and exchange rate losses. The upward adjustment in water tariffs on Monday comes barely four days after the PURC approved an 11.17 per cent increase in electricity tariffs. The Executive Secretary of the PURC, Mami Dufie Ofori, who announced th...