Billing accomplices: Guangzhou tariff rise attracts controversy
- From: Vol 10, Issue 1 (January 2009)
- Category: General
- Region: Asia
- Country: China
- Related Companies: World Bank
Wastewater tariffs in Guangzhou are to increase by 80%, amid allegations of murky costing practices. GWI’s China Editor Kathy Liu reports.
In December, the Guangzhou Bureau of Commodity Prices conducted a public forum to consider proposals by the Guangzhou Urban Construction Commission (GUCC) to raise wastewater treatment tariffs (see table below). In the past, such meetings have tended to rubberstamp price rises, and Guangzhou was no exception: option one, an 80% increase in wastewater rates, was endorsed by 21 of the ...
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