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Dominicans will now pay an increase in their water bill this month following a Water Access Charge which took effect on June 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have indicated several times the justification for the rates,”\u00a0 General Manager of the Dominica Water and Sewerage Company (DOWASCO) Bernard Ettinoffe reiterated. \u201cThe large businesses will pay $800 per month, the medium-sized businesses $175, the small businesses $100, and domestic \u00a0customers will pay only $15 per month in addition to what they are paying now.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to him, all other tariffs remain the same. There is no increase for domestic, sewerage rates.<\/p>\n
\u201cit is just that, government understood the need for DOWASCO to generate more revenue from the services it provides so that it can keep the operations sustainable,\u201d Ettinoffe stated.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, he stated that over the last few years, the government has paid close to $32 million on behalf of DOWASCO in terms of loans and other operational expenses.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government has done its share and so the increases that we see now are just an effort to assist DOWASCO In meeting these operating expenses,\u201d he indicated.<\/p>\n
Before\u00a0domestic unmetered customers paid\u00a0a flat rate of $48.30\u00a0while domestic metered customers paid\u00a0from 0 to 1000 gallons $21.62 and an additional 1000 gallons $10.12. The commercial customers paid\u00a0from 0 to 1000 gallons $36.57 and an additional 1000 gallons $13.57.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominicans will now pay an increase in their water bill this month following a Water Access Charge which took effect on June 1. \u201cI have indicated several times the justification for the rates,”\u00a0 General Manager of the Dominica Water and…","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":323103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n