KUALA LUMPUR: Six states have agreed to increase water rates in line with the government’s efforts to restructure the water supply services industry, Water, Land and Natural Resources Minister Dr A. Xavier Jayakumar said.
Six states have agreed to increase water rates in line with the government’s efforts to restructure the water supply services industry, Water, Land and Natural Resources Minister Dr A. Xavier Jayakumar said.
He said the agreement was reached through negotiations with each state government and the National Water Services Commission.He, however, did not name the six states, but added, “soon, two more states will agree to raise their water tariff”. He was answering a question from Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin , who wanted to know the ministry’s justification for increasing the tariff and the ceiling price for each state.
According to Dr Xavier, the water tariff nationwide should have been raised two or five years ago. —Bernama
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