Residents of Rascani and Briceni will pay more for water and sewerage services. On Tuesday, the National Agency for Energy Regulation approved new tariffs for household consumers, with increases of up to 7 lei per cubic metre for water and 17 lei per cubic metre for sewerage, IPN reports.
In Rascani, the water supply tariff for residential consumers will rise by 5.26 lei to 19.26 lei per cubic metre. Meanwhile, the tariff for sewerage and wastewater treatment will double from 17 to 34 lei per cubic metre.
Meanwhile, in Briceni, households will pay 22.42 lei per cubic metre of water, an increase of 6.92 lei over the current rate. The sewerage tariff will rise by 11.66 lei to 32.66 lei per cubic metre.
According to ANRE, the new tariffs were set following an assessment of operators’ expenses, the volume of water supplied, network losses, electricity costs and investments. Following the review, the operators’ approved revenues were reduced from the amounts requested by 275,600 lei in Rascani and 146,800 lei in Briceni.