Tasmanian residential water and sewerage customers are facing a possible increase of $100 on their annual bills.
The state’s three water corporations have released their draft pricing plan for 2012 through to 2015.
Each corporation is proposing a different annual target tariff rate for standard residential customers.
Cradle Mountain Water is the highest at $978, Ben Lomond is proposing a rate of $949, while Southern Water wants to charge an average of $942 per customer.
Households with both water and sewerage connected face a maximum increase of $100 a year, or 10 per cent of what they paid this year; whichever figure is greater.
Customers who are already paying more than about $1,000 will not see any increase over the period.
Andrew Kneebone from Cradle Mountain Water says the company needs to increase revenue.
“We’re currently a fairly marginal business in terms of profitability and we also have a large challenge in front of us in terms of bringing infrastructure [like] pipes, pumps, treatment plants up to compliance standards,” he said.
“That’s going to cost additional money over what we’re currently raising.”
