There is no one living in the house and no water, why do you have to pay 9 yuan per month for water?
News from this newspaper (Reporter Zhang Chong) A few days ago, on the official Internet platform of the Wuhan Municipal Online Mass Work Department of Hubei Province - "Wuhan City Message Board", the message of Ms. Gui, a citizen of the city, aroused the public's enthusiasm for the city's secondary water supply charges. discussion.
Ms. Gui is the owner of Jiufeng New District, Donghu High-tech Zone, Wuhan City. She is puzzled by the fact that the house is unoccupied and has no water. Why do you have to pay 9 yuan per month for water?
The community where Ms. Gui's home is located is a local housing project that was delivered in 2009.
Since October last year, Ms. Gui's house has been vacant for some reason, no one lives there, and there is no water.
But what she didn't expect was that her family still received the water bill left by the meter reader in the community.
The water bill shows that Ms. Gui needs to pay the water bill at the rate of 9 yuan per month.
She consulted and learned that this is the basic cost of each household after the secondary water supply in the community is apportioned, and it needs to be paid whether it uses water or not.
She thought it was unreasonable: "How can you make sense if you have to pay for water when you don't have water?"
The reporter noticed that the water bill also showed that the payment was made by a unit named Shimenfeng Pumping Station in Jiufeng Township, Hongshan District, and the water fee was 2.97 yuan/ton.
Ms. Gui was even more confused: What is the relationship between this unit and the water supply in her community?
What are the water tariffs implemented?
In this regard, the relevant person in charge of Wuhan Water Supply Donghu High-tech Water Supply Company said that at present, the water tariff charged by the water supply company to residents is 2.47 yuan / ton, and no money will be charged if they do not use water.
The current situation encountered by Ms. Gui is because when the developers of Jiufeng New Area first reported the installation, they only reported the general form of the community, and did not report the installation of "one form for each household".
Therefore, urban tap water from the community to each household is the secondary water supply service provided by developers, property companies and secondary water supply service providers. The water fee collection in the community is also completed by developers, property companies and secondary water supply service providers. Then unified accounting with the water company.
There is a certain cost for secondary water supply, and there is a phenomenon of price increase, but there is no clear standard.
According to Ms. Gui's water bill and the staff of Shimenfeng Pumping Station in Jiufeng Township, Hongshan District, the unit undertook the secondary water supply service in Jiufeng New Area. Due to the disrepair of the community's pipelines, the company added water supply booster equipment , and there are 4 staff to serve the water supply of the community. These equipment and labor costs are shared with the owners of the community, which is only 0.5 yuan per ton more than the current residential water standard in the city, and the company issued a special report to the street where the community is located last year. written statement of circumstances.
In response to Ms. Gui's situation, the staff member introduced that if the house is unwilling to share the cost of secondary water supply in the community when the house is idle for a long time, the best way is to apply for "water supply stop".
The reporter found out that this phenomenon is not only in Wuhan nor only in Ms. Gui. There have been similar disputes over water charges in many cities in China.
Industry insiders pointed out that since the price of secondary water supply service is not included in the government pricing catalogue and does not belong to the scope of government pricing, there is no clear charging standard.
However, some cities have explored the charges for secondary water supply services and have agreed on the price of secondary water supply services.