Consultations between the Department of Water and Sanitation and key stakeholders across the country are underway to determine bulk water tariffs for the 2022/23 financial year
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Consultations between the Department of Water and Sanitation and key stakeholders across the country are underway to determine bulk water tariffs for the 2022/23 financial year

The Department of Water and Sanitation is now in consultation with significant national stakeholders to set the bulk water rates for the fiscal year 2022–2023.

Tenda Rasikhanya, the department’s director for institutional establishment in the Northern Cape, said that two stakeholder engagement meetings will take place there.

The Upington stakeholders’ meeting is slated for July 20 at the Desert Palace, and the Kimberley engagement is set for July 21 at the Kimberley Garden Court, according to Rasikhanya.

Rasikhanya pointed out that providing water to everyone with an acceptable degree of assurance and quality comes at a cost, both in terms of infrastructure investment and operation and maintenance expenditures related to water treatment, bulk water distribution, and reticulation in human settlements.

In accordance with the National Water Act of 1998, the department must develop an annual plan for pricing raw water following extensive consultation with all water users, including domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, and energy users.

According to the Act, a price for raw water charges must be set by the Minister of Water and Sanitation.

The Pricing Principles, which include user pay, polluter pay, ecological sustainability, differentiated charges, accountability, and governance, are the foundation for water pricing.

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