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Tue 09 Sep 2009Annual water payment would average €500 per home by 2014
WATER CHARGES:DOMESTIC WATER charges should be introduced as “a sustainable approach to realising an acceptable conservation culture”, the commission said.
Water charges, which would cost the average household about €500 a year in 2014, would raise €450 million a year for local authorities, it reported. Another €58 million would be raised by recovering the full cost of water services from commercial users.
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