Howard Jenings

Just had our water bill today $42.00 for 3 and a half months, for a family of 5 who run 2 showers, baths, dishwasher and washing machine- it seems a bit cheap to me! I have checked the meter and it goes round when we run the tap. We have only used 120 units since we moved in!!

ABCDiamond

Is that just for the actual consumption ?
Ours was $97 last quarter, 3 bathrooms, a teenager who thinks water comes out of the sky, garden to keep green and a pool to keep full, although we still stayed under the water advised limit.

57 kl at $1.70 per kilolitre in 3 months.

Loch Lomond

I still am surprised at how cheap water bills are here despite the ongoing threat of drought and lack of water.
However, my 6 monthly charge for water averages $50, F**k all. We are 65%below the average for the suburb we live and we don't know why. My bore pump failed a few weeks ago, so I have now repaired that and brought it back on line, but as it is winter I won't use it. I'll use mains/shire water for my vegy garden as it will be cheaper than running my pump.

Howard Jenings

I don't know why it is so low, we moved rental property at the end of Jan this Year, but where we were before we paid about $175 a quarter, so this one seems really low!!

spottydog

$175 a quarter for water usage sounds very high. This sounds more like you were charged the rates as well as the actual water usage, unless you had a very large leak...

Gems

Your previous bill was pretty high. I got ripped off when I lived in Carnarvon, and had to claim the money back when I moved house and realised it was too high. As I was new to Australia I just assumed this was the going rate.

Im paying around $90 for Wandina, and have 4 kids
(including a son nearly 18yr old who likes to shower for half and hour)

Gems

Stu Ward

We just had out first Water bill in our new property

$31 - usage
24Kl - no pool
This is bathing / showering with 2 kids.
Also cleaning the cars and Irrigating the garden, we have no rainwater tanks here


Stu

quoll

$220 - $250 a quarter here for water and sewage - just the two of us with occasional visitors use tank water for watering the garden and drinking. ACT is very expensive water-wise!!!

spottydog

But how much of that is rates (which if you're renting is paid by the landlord)?

Our rates are $150 a quarter then we get around $20 to $30 on top of that which is actual water usage. This amazed me when I first got here as absolutely no financial incentive for using less water

ABCDiamond

Our total is $317 for the last quarter, the breakdown being:
$ 97 Water usage
$ 58 Access
$162 Sewerage
$317 Total Redland Council, QLD Rates

A tenant would only pay the $97 part of that.


ACT should beUsing ACT rates my bill would have been:
$128.26 Usage
$ 17.91 Access
$121.10 sewerage
$267.27 total ACT rates

NSW would be
$106.59 Usage
$ 25.38 Access
$125.27 Sewerage
$257.24 total NSW Rates

Although our actual water usage charge in Redlands is cheaper, we get hammered on the sewerage and access charges.