BMA ponders collecting wasted water treatment fee

[Thaivisa News]

Bangkok:- The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration will next month ponder a method for collecting wasted water treatment fees to help the city administration shoulder high cost of water treatment, a BMA source said.

The source said the BMA’s Drainage and Sewerage Department will submit a proposal to the BMA governor on April 15 on the collecting of the fee.

The governor will be asked to choose one of three methods for collecting wasted-water treatment fees so that the proposal will be submitted to the interior minister for endorsement before a directive will be enacted.

In the first method, the BMA will have to buy a database of tap water users in Bangkok from the Metropolitan Water Authority so that they will be charged accordingly for wasted water treatment fee.

In the second method, the BMA will contract the MWA to collect the fees for the city administration when the MWA collects tap water fee.

However, according to the source, the MWA has already rejected the proposal, saying the MWA act does not allow it to collect wasted water treatment fee.

The MWA instead offers to print tap water receipts for the BMA to collect the wasted water fee on its own but the BMA will be charged Bt6 per receipt or it will be charged about Bt1.8 million each month for the receipts.

In the third method, the BMA may use flat rates of wasted water treatment fees like the garbage collection fees, the source said.

The source said each Bangkok resident is using tap water about 120 to 130 liters each day. The BMA believes there are about 10 million city residents so they generate about 130,000 cubic meters of wasted water each day while factories and rains contribute to about 300,000 cubic meters of wasted water each day. The BMA is spending about Bt1 million a day for the water treatment.

[Wiggy]

This is going to kick up a stink!

[Estrada]

1. It is called waste water not wasted water. 2. If 130L/person x 10,000,000pop = 1,300,000,000litres = 1,300,000cu.metres/day. I think their confusion is because we built around 10 sewage plants all designed for 1Million people = 130,000cu.metres/day.

[Srikcir]

The most direct and simplest option is to have MWA collect the fee from its water users and for a nominal cost provide the accounting to BMA to document sources of fees. The other options will add unnecessary costs to the users. But the MWA objects as the MWA act does not allow it to collect wasted water treatment fee.

So pass amending legislation so it can collect the fee!

What's the big deal?

[maidee]

"three methods for collecting wasted-water treatment fees"

they can send the BIB, they already collecting monthly fees for their own FUND

[monkeycountry]

Or the 4th method, the MWA act is changed, so the MWA can collect the waste water fee together with the fresh water fee. This is obviously the only sensible solution.

I am guessing it will take PM Prayuth about 5 minutes to change the MWA act to include waste water.

This btw should be done countrywide, and for houses which use wells or other sources of water, a flat fee could be implemented depending on the amount of people in the household or the size of the house or similar.

Last but not least, it would of course be nice if this fee was actually used to improve waste water treatment which is really lacking all over the country.

[Thai at Heart]

A fine idea. Why should it be free?