Ministries at loggerheads over Israeli tariff policy

Israel’s Finance Ministry wants to dramatically lessen the gap between consumer tariffs and the price of desalinated water. Colleagues elsewhere in the Government are not so sure.

Israel’s Ministries of Finance and National Infrastructures are locked in a battle over the price of water in 2008. As part of its budget proposal for the coming year, the Finance Ministry has called for raising the average price of water to consumers by over 10% in order to pay for the higher price of desalinated water.

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