This comes as civic and political organisations press for them to be lowered. The meeting, which is set to take place at the end of next month, would help the city council make projections and take decisions on whether the water tariff could be adjusted, said mayoral committee member for water and waste Xanthea Limberg.
Civic activist group Stop Coct called on the city council to abandon its “inflexible stance” on the tariffs and to lower them as there was no drought crisis. But Limberg said the council kept tariff increases low at 4.5% for water and sanitation; 3.5% for refuse removal and 4.8% for electricity. “You can’t keep both. The city has made an over-recovery. Residents cannot be a DA cash cow to fund a bloated administration with high management costs,” Herron said.
“It should also acknowledge the periods of water abundance and should be flexible to lower the water tariff accordingly,” she said. Limberg said the meeting would also help determine whether the current level 1 restrictions would be adjusted, bearing in mind the likelihood of possible increased”consumption if such a decision was made.“The R4,4bn in water sales revenue derived for the 2017/18 financial year was the total income for the service and does not equate to profit,” Limberg said. She said the city council sought to keep costs of service delivery as low as possible.
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