Harare City Council considers raising water rates, to scrap off fixed water charge for suburbs without water

According to the Harare City Council (HCC)’s finance and development committee minutes for December, councillors were considering increasing water tariffs.

Part of the minutes read:

The HCC presented their 2017 budget proposal to the Local Government ministry that council considers increasing water tariffs in order to avoid selling water at below cost.

In 2014, the council resolved to scrap the fixed water charge for suburbs that did not receive the commodity but however, nothing has been done to-date. HCC spokesperson Michael Chideme said council is still working on the appropriate figure to be presented to Saviour Kasukuwere’s Local Government ministry for approval. Speaking on the removal of the fixed water charge, Chideme said:

We will only bill customers that are connected. Meters will be read to determine consumption in households and where they are not functioning, they will be billed based on historical consumption.

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