{"id":437335,"date":"2011-06-07T08:21:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T08:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/07\/water-costs-going-up\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T08:21:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T08:21:47","slug":"water-costs-going-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/water-costs-going-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Costs Going Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"48.0259545795\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/namibian180.jpg\" alt=\"The Namibian (Windhoek)\" title=\"Visit The Namibian (Windhoek)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nico Smit<\/p>\n<p>1 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Cabinet has approved an average increase of 14 per cent in water tariffs for all NamWater clients.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the start of a period of high tariff levels, as NamWater is facing a capital recovery backlog of N$500 million and is finalising plans for infrastructure upgrades that will cost N$3,5 billion over the next five years, according to chief executive officer Dr Vaino Shivute.<\/p>\n<p>He said NamWater initially requested a 23 per cent increase because it had not received any approval for the last three financial years. However, Cabinet shot down the request.<\/p>\n<p>The NamWater CEO said they are doing a valuation of infrastructure in order to set tariffs on a full cost-recovery basis.<\/p>\n<p>Shivute expressed the hope that the increases will be softened by capital grants from Government.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, increases in electricity costs put pressure on water tariffs, as power makes up about a third of NamWater&#8217;s costs. As a result, an increase in electricity tariffs should result in an automatic increase in water tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>This does not bode well for the consumer, as NamPower is due to receive an answer from the Electricity Control Board on its application for a tariff increase.<\/p>\n<p>Shivute indicated that the tariffs for local authority customers will be implemented later this month.<\/p>\n<p>He said as long as NamPower was subjected to high power tariff hikes, it would need to recover the input cost from consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Shivute said people should not think that this year&#8217;s record rainfall will result in lower water tariffs, as there is no direct relation between the two.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NamWater CEO, the cost of treating water actually increases during the rainy season, as more dirt needs to be cleaned from the water.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, extensive damage to water infrastructure at Walvis Bay and significant damage to the main canal from Angola have resulted in emergency repairs costing more than N$10 million. The total repair bill will be over N$20 million.<\/p>\n<p>Shivute said NamWater has to date not received any money from Government, and has managed to operate on a commercial basis. Assistance is now required on the social water schemes in order to maintain tariffs in communal areas and smaller local authorities.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106070384.html\" title=\"Water Costs Going Up\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Water Costs Going Up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nico Smit 1 June 2011 Cabinet has approved an average increase of 14 per cent in water tariffs for all NamWater clients. This marks the start of a period of high tariff levels, as NamWater is facing a capital recovery backlog of N$500 million and is finalising plans for infrastructure upgrades that will cost N$3,5 billion over the next five years, according to chief executive officer Dr Vaino Shivute. He said NamWater initially requested a 23 per cent increase because it had not received any approval for the last three financial years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":431478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Water Costs Going Up - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/water-costs-going-up\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Water Costs Going Up - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nico Smit 1 June 2011 Cabinet has approved an average increase of 14 per cent in water tariffs for all NamWater clients. 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