The Bishkek City Hall has developed and submitted to the City Council a draft resolution on increasing the tariff for drinking water supply and wastewater disposal. The document has been submitted for public discussion.
As background statement says, providing consumers with high-quality drinking water that meets safety standards and hygiene requirements, receiving and treating wastewater, operating the water supply and sewerage facilities, maintaining intra-house public water supply and sewerage networks of multi-apartment residential buildings in the city requires large financial costs.
The current tariffs do not allow proper operation and modernization of pumping and power equipment, trucks and special vehicles, reconstruction of water supply and sewer networks, preventive, current and emergency repairs of intra-house water supply, sewer networks.
The City Hall notes that the only enterprise in the city engaged in the extraction, transportation and supply of drinking water, as well as the reception and treatment of wastewater and the maintenance of intra-house water supply and sewerage networks, is in a difficult financial situation.
Tariff increase (draft)
Water supply (for 1 cubic meter, without taxes):
- Population — 10.45 soms;
- Budget-funded organizations — 12.95 soms;
- Other consumers — 18.5 soms.
Wastewater disposal, sewerage (for 1 cubic meter, without taxes):
- Population — 3.45 soms;
- Budget-funded organizations — 4.5 soms;
- Other consumers — 9 soms.
Maintenance of intra-house public water supply and sewerage networks of multi-apartment residential buildings (per 1 square meter of total area per year, excluding taxes):
- Population — 15.1 soms;
- Other consumers located in multi-apartment residential buildings — 15.1 soms.
The last time the tariff was increased in November 2019. Then it was increased for the population 1.5 times for cold water supply: from 5.38 to 8.1 soms per cubic meter. It was almost doubled for wastewater disposal — from 1.2 soms to 2.3 soms.
