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However, this target is still far from being achieved. In 2009 the average domestic water tariff in Malaysia was Ringgit (MYR) 0.65/m3 (US$0.18/m3). There are 14 different regional water tariffs in Malaysia, each corresponding roughly to one state. The lowest domestic tariff is in Penang (MYR0.31/m3), while the highest is in Johor (MYR0.98/m3).
The raw water is sourced mostly from surface water collected by several dams, lakes and rivers, and treated at the nearby water treatment plants. The Selangor water works is run by Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Air Selangor), a Selangor State-owned company. [1] Sungai Selangor Dam & Sungai Tinggi Dam Dam capacity 344,529 million litres.
84% of the Selangor people believe that politics were the main factor responsible for the escalation of water shortages to crisis-level. [3] Disagreements between Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (SYABAS) and the state government slowed progress toward a stable water supply. The deadlines for agreement on a water distribution restructuring deal ...
Criteria for tariff setting Water tariffs are set based on a number of formal criteria defined by law, as well as informal criteria. [1] Formal criteria typically include: financial criteria (cost recovery), economic criteria (efficiency pricing based on marginal cost) and sometimes; environmental criteria (incentives for water conservation).
a system of water rights or quotas; input pricing as a percentage of the cost of certain input(s), e.g., seed; output pricing as a percentage of product sales. For the electricity services, the number of alternatives is larger, Borenstein [5] provides a review of the ways that can be used by the electric utilities to recover the fixed costs.
Key to effective and efficient water pricing is a systematic process to understand: (i) the value of water in alternative uses; (ii) the private and external costs of supplying water services; and (iii) the multiple options to determine an appropriate water tariff. Within the four dimensions of water pricing (uniform versus variable tariff and ...
Agricultural water use is vastly larger than industrial or domestic water use globally and in most countries, therefore irrigation water demand management is an important topic. As with domestic water demand management lack of appropriate data is a frequently encountered problem signalling the importance of measuring water usage at the farm and ...
Selangor water works provides water supply in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya. It was run by Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (SYABAS) which is owned by the state ...