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Home Water Prices to Rise
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

The price for water used in excess of the basic allocation of 60 cubic meters per person will rise sharply in an effort to cut home consumption according to an agreement between the Water Commission, the Treasury, the Interior Ministry and Union of Local Authorities.

Other measures that were agreed upon include a restriction against planting new public parks or gardens for three years. In total, the cities undertook to cut 100 million cubic meters from their allocation of water, amid other wide ranging measures to tackle the developing water crisis. Water Commissioner Shimon Tal's proposal to ban watering of pubic parks and gardens for three years was not adopted. The cities act as intermediaries between the individual consumers and Mekorot, the national water company. The cities deal with the consumers, maintaining their connections and handling the billing, and in turn purchase the water from Mekorot.

Prices for all water will probably rise, but the rise will be especially sharp for usage that exceeds a basic allocation of 60 cubic meters a person.

Farmers will be asked if they want to sell off their water allocation. In recent months other steps have been taken, including the updating of the allocation of water rights. In an historical anomaly that received wide press coverage, some neighborhoods in north Tel Aviv that are now populated with large homes receive agricultural rates for the water they consume because they were once agricultural communities.

The Treasury and Interior Ministry are supposed to come up with the new procedures for home water consumption, and the Union of Local Authorities will try to propose specific administrative steps to enforce the water savings of the new package.

 

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