Water users to pay for what they use
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RESIDENTS of Bangkok, Nonthaburi and Samut Prakan provinces will pay for tap water according to what they use, from April 1 onwards.
Rakkecha Chaechai, secretary-general of the Ombudsman’s Office, said yesterday that this followed a public complaint to the office over the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA)’s “unfair” practice of collecting a minimum monthly water bill starting from Bt45, although one tap-water unit was priced at Bt8.5.
So the Ombudsman’s Office proposed that the MWA charge for tap water according to people’s real use in residential homes. MWA executives agreed to the proposal and issued an announcement to cancel the Bt45 minimum rate in the three provinces from April 1 on, he said.
