Recently, Xiangyang city sewage charges from this month to implement the new standard, the residents of the charge adjusted to 0.95 yuan / cubic meter, non-residents adjusted to 1.40 yuan / cubic meter.
According to reports, the current price of water in Xiangyang is divided into two major parts, one is the price of water supply, and the second is the sewage treatment fee, the two together is the actual payment of the "price to the household". According to the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Housing and Construction issued in 2015, "on the development and adjustment of sewage treatment charges and other related issues of the notice", before the end of 2016, the national city sewage treatment charges in principle should be adjusted to the residents of not less than 0.95 yuan per cubic meter, non-residents not less than 1.4 yuan.
This time, approved by the Provincial Price Bureau and the Department of Finance, Xiangyang decided in accordance with the new minimum charge, from March 1, 2016, Xiangyang urban sewage treatment fee collection standard adjustment. Adjustment of the standard is residents from the current 0.8 yuan per cubic meter adjusted to 0.95 yuan, non-residents from the current 0.8 yuan adjusted to 1.4 yuan, for social welfare institutions still according to the implementation of 0.8 yuan.
It is understood that the previous implementation of the Xiangyang urban sewage charges for 0.8 yuan / cubic meter, all users are implementing the same standard. The adjustment is in line with the "pay for pollution, fair burden" principle, mainly pulled up industrial enterprises, administrative enterprises and institutions of the charges, for ordinary residents of the water sewage treatment fee standard changes are not significant, and will not bring too much impact on the public's daily life. The increase in revenue after the increase in sewage charges is mainly used for the construction of urban sewage pipe network and environmental pollution control.
Xiangyang City Urban and Rural Construction Committee party committee members, deputy director of Wang Wenfeng said that the urban areas in accordance with each family of three people, 17 cubic meters of water per month, the implementation of the new standard, then, each month, the new expenditure of about 2.55 yuan, the annual new expenditure is about 30 yuan.