Therefore, you may suffer from water leaks in the future

According to the industry association Svenskt Vatten, Sweden needs to invest SEK 23 billion every year until 2040 for our water network to work.

But investments today are SEK 16 billion.

Money to cover the costs of both maintaining the existing network and expanding a new one.

- We need to raise the VA rate.

If we do not increase that fee, we will not be able to have a good drinking water supply and the interruptions that we now see in Nyköping and Oxelösund will probably become more common, says Pär Dalhielm, CEO of Svenskt Vatten.

Municipality: Invested a lot

According to the municipal council in Nyköping, Urban Granström, large investments are already being made in the municipality's water and sewerage pipes.

- We invest a lot and have raised the VA rate by five percent in the last three years.

The bourgeois government had not raised the VA rate at all when I took over.

Of course we need to invest in renewing the VA network and we do that too, but somewhere it is also a priority in how much we should take out from the residents of Nyköping, he says.